[Printed pamphlet by 'The Directors of the well known Strand Electric and Engineering Company Limited'] A Completely New Glossary of Technical Theatrical Terms [...] With an Appendix of the Colours used for Lighting the Plays [...]

Irregular (12 x 23.5 cm), 32 pp. In fair condition, aged and lightly worn. In original wraps, with cover design, in a variety of types and point sizes, imitating an early nineteenth-century handbill, stating that 'all Profits for the Benefit of the Deserving Actors' Orphanage. | Free list entirely suspended | Fees payable in advance are 2s. per copy'. Full-page foreword followed by the thirty-page glossary in alphabetical order from 'act-drop' to 'workshop flex', and with final full-page appendix giving the 'names and reference numbers of the shades of colour media and lamp lacquer which are in common use in stage lighting'. The only copy on COPAC at the British Library