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Printing plates

Published Tuesday 30 September 2008 at 11:40

We at Samuel French Ltd were surprised and excited to see an illustration from an old T H Lacy Acting Edition adorning the Training page (page 14, September 25) in reference to a one-day symposium on 19th-century plays.

The vision scene from The Cricket on the Hearth, adapted from Charles Dickens' popular story, in the TH Lacy Acting Edition of Victorian Plays, which is on display at the Buried Treasures symposium

The vision scene from The Cricket on the Hearth, adapted from Charles Dickens' popular story, in the TH Lacy Acting Edition of Victorian Plays, which is on display at the Buried Treasures symposium

Thomas Hailes Lacy, who began publishing plays in the 1870s, bought up the printing plates of earlier publishers such as Cumberland (thus laying claim to having been established in 1830) and was the forerunner of Samuel French Ltd.

We carry many of the old Lacy bound volumes, alas now falling apart so not suitable for academic research, and these delightful illustrations adorned the majority of them.

Amanda Smith

Director

Samuel French Ltd

Fitzroy Street

London W1

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