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- 1949-1968, 1987 (Creation)
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202 ff. (blank from f. 79) ; 320 x 250 mm.
Bound in full green morocco with double gold fillets by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; 'VISITORS BOOK' and 'ANGUS McBEAN PHOTOGRAPHER' (in gold on front cover); gilded page edges.
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Visitors Book for Angus McBean's studios in Endell Street and Islington, with over one thousand signatures from 1949 to 1968, almost all associated with the entertainment industry, some with added comments and drawings.
Among the signatures are those of actors Laurence Olivier (ff. 5, 43, 59), Vivien Leigh (f. 5), Marlene Dietrich (f. 23), Katharine Hepburn (f. 33 verso) and Richard Burton (f. 38), comedian Spike Milligan (f. 56), playwright Tennessee Williams (f. 28), songwriter Ivor Novello (f. 11) and singers such as Maria Callas (f. 61) and all four Beatles (f. 63 verso). Signatures added in January 1987 are of visitors to Fleming's Hall (f. 78 verso).
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- English
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Front cover and endpaper detached from text block.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 24041D.
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- Beatles (Subject)
- Olivier, Laurence, 1907-1989. (Subject)
- Dietrich, Marlene. (Subject)
- Milligan, Spike, 1918-2002. (Subject)
- Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. (Subject)
- Novello, Ivor, 1893-1951 (Subject)
- Callas, Maria, 1923-1977. (Subject)
- Leigh, Vivien, 1913-1967. (Subject)
- Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003. (Subject)
- Burton, Richard, 1925-1984 (Subject)