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Mr. Sandford most respectfully begs leave to acquaint the nobility, gentry, his patrons, and the public generally that he has been fortunate enough to engage that most distinguished and justly celebrated actor, Mr. T. P. Cooke

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle

  • Alphabet discs
  • The spot where the body of Shelley was burned
  • Sketchbook containing views recording a tour in Switzerland and France
  • Anne Wagner album
  • Lord Byron, as he appeared after his daily ride at Pisa & Genoa
  • Julia Conyers album
  • Watercolor portrait of Lord Byron
  • The great aerial navigator, or atmospheric machine!
  • Conundrum fan
  • Ettore
  • Lives of the necromancers (with tipped in autograph letter signed to Thomas Northmore, 3 January [1803])
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet
  • Frankenstein: or, The modern Prometheus; to which is added vol. 1 of F. Schiller's The Ghost-Seer
  • Lady Anne Hamilton commonplace book of poetry
  • Songs of innocence
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Broadsides from the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection

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Title
Mr. Sandford most respectfully begs leave to acquaint the nobility, gentry, his patrons, and the public generally that he has been fortunate enough to engage that most distinguished and justly celebrated actor, Mr. T. P. Cooke
Additional title: Theatre Royal, Plymouth
Names
Nettleton, Edward (Printer)
Theatre Royal (Plymouth, England) (Presenter)
Collection

Broadsides from the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1833
Place: Plymouth
Publisher: Nettleton, printer to His Majesty, Whimple Street
Library locations
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Shelf locator: Pforz (FF. Broadsides. 0012)
Topics
Cooke, T. P. (Thomas Potter), 1786-1864
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein
Peake, Richard Brinsley, 1792-1847. Presumption!
Jerrold, Douglas, 1803-1857. Black-eyed Susan
Genres
Broadsides
Playbills
Notes
Content: At head of sheet: Theatre Royal, Plymouth.
Content: Broadside playbill; also advertises: "On Monday next, August 19, 1833, will be presented (first time here) the romantic drama called Presumption! or, The fate of Frankenstein, with new scenery, and decorations, the part of the (***) Mr. T. P. Cooke" ; and Douglas William Jerrold's Black-eyed Susan.
Biographical/historical: "Mr. T.P. Cooke, who, during the Race Week, will appear in those characters by the performance of which he has so repeatedly crowded to excess the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, Dublin, Edinburgh, and every great theatre throughout the United Kingdom! Our dramatic critics have all agreed that various representations of Mr. T. P. Cooke are at once so vigorous, so chaste, and so true to nature, that they despair of ever witnessing the same characters embodied, in a like degree of perfection, by any other actor."
Exhibitions: Digitized in relation to the exhibition "It’s Alive! Frankenstein at 200," but not an exhibited item. The exhibition was a collaboration between The Morgan Library & Museum and The New York Public Library: https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/frankenstein
Physical Description
Extent: 1 sheet ; 44 x 17 cm.
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 37872268
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b16148903
External Exhibition ID: ML 18.X4037
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 498769d0-01cd-0135-e282-0ed32b03b3e5
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

Item timeline of events

  • 1833: Issued
  • 2017: Digitized
  • 2026: Found by you!
  • 2027

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. "Mr. Sandford most respectfully begs leave to acquaint the nobility, gentry, his patrons, and the public generally that he has been fortunate enough to engage that most distinguished and justly celebrated actor, Mr. T. P. Cooke " The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1833. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e186d090-3736-0135-e6ff-6b5bc6da977d

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. "Mr. Sandford most respectfully begs leave to acquaint the nobility, gentry, his patrons, and the public generally that he has been fortunate enough to engage that most distinguished and justly celebrated actor, Mr. T. P. Cooke " New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed September 25, 2026. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e186d090-3736-0135-e6ff-6b5bc6da977d

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. (1833). Mr. Sandford most respectfully begs leave to acquaint the nobility, gentry, his patrons, and the public generally that he has been fortunate enough to engage that most distinguished and justly celebrated actor, Mr. T. P. Cooke Retrieved from https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e186d090-3736-0135-e6ff-6b5bc6da977d

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Mr. Sandford most respectfully begs leave to acquaint the nobility, gentry, his patrons, and the public generally that he has been fortunate enough to engage that most distinguished and justly celebrated actor, Mr. T. P. Cooke