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• A Treatise on Theatres (London: Printed for the author, 1790), by George Saunders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Schaubühne der Zukunft (Schuster & Loeffler, [1905?], 1905), by Georg Fuchs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• By the stage door (The Grafton press, 1902), by Ada Patterson and Victory Bateman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Esercitazioni architettoniche sopra gli spettacoli degli antichi : con appendice sul bello in generale ... (Presso il Salomoni, 1808), by Pedro Marquez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theatres (Theatre arts, inc., 1929), by Joseph Urban (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moderne Regie, ein Buch für Theaterfreunde. (Englert & Schlosser, 1912), by Max Alberty (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vitruvius and the Greek stage. (The University Press of Chicago, 1893), by Edward Capps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theatre arts prints. (The John Day Company, 1929), by John Mason Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The theatre of tomorrow (Boni and Liveright, 1921), by Kenneth Macgowan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Elizabethan stage (Oxford : At the Clarendon Press, M.CMXXIII [1923], 1923), by E. K. Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stage decoration in France in the middle ages (The Columbia University Press, 1910), by Donald Clive Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The world behind the scenes. (Chatto and Windus, 1881), by Percy Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Escenografía española (Imprenta Blass, 1923), by Joaquín Muñoz Morillejo and Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Theatre management, a manual of the business of the theatre, including full texts of author's and actor's standard contracts (D. Appleton, 1929), by Sanford E Stanton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le théâtre de l'avenir : aménagement général, mise en scène, trucs, machinerie, etc. (Schleicher frères, 1903), by Georges Vitoux (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Theater art (The Manual arts press, 1931), by Victor D'Amico (page images at HathiTrust)
• The vaudeville theatre, building, operation, management (Gotham Press, Inc., 1918), by Edward Renton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Goethes Bühnenbearbeitung von "Romeo und Julia" ([publisher not identified], 1907), by Emil Wendling (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• El arte en el teatro (Librería de Juan y Antonio Bastinos, 1875), by José de Manjarrés (page images at HathiTrust)
• La musique au théâtre (Paris : Amyot, 1863., 1863), by A. -L. Malliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cenni teorico-pratici sulle aziende teatrali ... (Dalla Società tipog. de'Classici italiani, 1823), by Giovanni Valle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original poetry (John Lane, 1898), by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Garnett, and Elizabeth Shelley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theatre arts prints. (John Day Co., 1929), by John Mason Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The theatre of tomorrow. (Boni and Liveright, 1921), by Kenneth Macgowan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Galateo dei teatri. (G. Truffi, 1836), by Gaetano Savonarola (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theatrical guide and moving picture directory (Julius Cahn-Gus Hill, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient laws against immorality (C. Crownfield [etc.], 1729), by John Disney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theatre L'Homme Dieu Theater, 1961 (St. Cloud State University Archives, Miller Center, 720 Fourth Ave. S, St. Cloud, MN 56301-4498; http://lrts.stcloudstate.edu/library/special/archives/, 1961) (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'envers du théâtre : machines et décorations (Hachette, 1873), by J. Moynet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le scandale au théâtre (J. Taride, 1861), by Georges d' Heylli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theatre acoustics. (The American Architect, Inc., 1913), by Wallace Clement Sabine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early London theatres. (In the fields.) (Macmillan, 1894), by T. Fairman Ordish (page images at HathiTrust)
• Griechischer Theaterbau nach Vitruv und den Überresten. ([s.n.], 1886), by Gustav Öhmichen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prospetto di un teatro. (Per Lodovico Genestri ..., 1790), by Giuseppe Pistocchi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della costruzione de' teatri secondo il costume d'Italia : vale a dire divisi in piccole logge (A spese Remondini di Venezia ..., 1790), by Francesco Riccati (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pianta, e spaccato del nuovo teatro di Bologna fatta in occasione dell'apertura di Esso li 14 maggio 1763 : colla descrizione di detto teatro : aggiuntovi la spiegazione dei vasi teatrali di Vitruvio, per rendere i teatri sonori, e consonanti. (Nella stamperia del Longhi, 1763), by Antonio Galli Bibiena (page images at HathiTrust)
• Idea di un teatro nelle principali sue parti simile a' teatri antichi all'uso moderno : accomodato con due discorsi ... opera dell' insigne Andrea Palladio (Appresso Antonio Veronese, 1762), by Enea Arnaldi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Degli antichi teatri, e anfiteatri : lettere due critiche : l'una del signor marchese Giovanni Poleni, pubblico professore di matematica nello studio di Padova : l'altra del signor conte Giovanni Montenari. ([s.n.], 1735), by Giovanni Poleni and Giovanni Montenari (page images at HathiTrust)
• Descrizione istorica del Teatro di Tor di Nona (Dalle stampe del Cannetti, 1795), by Felice Giorgi, Alessandro Angeletti, and Tommaso Piroli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Osservazioni sopra un antico teatro scoperto in Adria (Apresso Simone Occhi, 1739), by Ottavio Bocchi (page images at HathiTrust)
• La legislazione e la giurisprudenza dei teatri; trattato dei diritti e delle obbligazioni degli impresari, artisti, autori, etc. (F. Manini, 1872), by Enrico Rosmini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Storia e sistema del diritto dei teatri; secondo l'etica ed i principii delle leggi canoniche e civili. (N. Zanichelli, 1886), by Valentino Rivalta (page images at HathiTrust)
• Du droit de représentation en France de œuvres dramatiques & musicales françaises. (Paris, 1896), by Maxime Bertrand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theaterprozesse: ein wort zu gunsten der dichter und komponisten gegen ansichten des reichs-oberhandelsgerichts zu gunsten der theaterunternehmer. (Göttingen, 1880), by Heinrich Thöl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die rechtliche natur des theaterbillets nach gemeinem und nach dem rechte des bürgerlichen gesetzbuches. (Schwerin i.M., 1899), by Ludwig Steuer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Victor Louis, architecte du Théâtre de Bordeaux : sa vie, ses travaux et sa correspondance, 1731-1800 (Impr. G. Gounouihou, 1881), by Charles Marionneau and Victor Louis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pianta e spaccato del nuovo teatro di Bologna ... (Per Lelio dalla Volpe ..., 1771), by Lorenzo Capponi, Lelio Dalla Volpe, and Antonio Galli da Bibiena (page images at HathiTrust)
• The theatre of tomorrow (Boni and Liveright, 1992), by Kenneth Macgowan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Elizabethan playhouse. ([Philadelphia], 1910), by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'execution dramatique, considérée dans ses rapports avec le matériel de la salle et de la scène. Traite dédié a S.A.S. Monseigneur le prince Cambacérès, Archi-chancelier de l'Empire, Due de Parme, etc. (F. Schoell, 1809), by Jacques-François-Louis Grobert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sull'architettura greco-romano applicata alla costruzione del teatro moderno italiano e sulle macchine teatrali : saggio (Tipografia di Alvisopoli, 1817), by Tommaso Carlo Beccega and Antonio Bernatti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teatro della Scala in Milano : architettura del Regio Professore Giuseppe Piermarini. ([publisher not identified], 1789), by Giuseppe Piermarini and Giacomo Mercoli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pianta, e spaccato del nuovo teatro d'Imola (Nella stamperia del Casaletti, 1780), by Cosimo Morelli, Arcangelo Casaletti, and Carlo Antonini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrazione delle solenni reali feste : fatte celebrare in Napoli da Sua Maestà il Re delle Due Sicilie Carlo Infante di Spagna, Duca di Parma, Piacenza &c. & c per la nascita del suo primogenito Filippo Real Principe delle Due Sicilie. ([publisher not identified], 1749), by Giuseppe Vasi, Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain, Nicolas-Henri Jardin, Vincenzo dal Rè, Francesco Polanzani, Angelo Guiducci, and Carlo Bartolomeo Gregori (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Theater : Untersuchungen über das Theater-Bauwerk bei den klassischen und modernen Völkern (Lehmann & Wentzel (P. Krebs), 1903), by Andreas Streit (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stage and screen (Fund for the Republic, 1962), by Walter Kerr, Donald McDonald, Stanley Kramer, and Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Parallèle des principaux théâtres modernes de l'Europe et des machines théâtrales françaises, allemandes et anglaises (Paris : Chez l'auteur, rue Lepelletier, no. 7 et chez les principaux libraires. MDCCCXLII [1842], 1842), by Clément Contant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettera ad un amico, nella quale si dà ragguaglio della funzione seguita in Napoli il giorno 6. settembre del 1772 : per solennizzare il battesimo della reale infanta Maria Teresa Carolina, primogenita delle LL. MM. delle Due Sicilie, il re Ferdinando IV. e regina Maria Carolina, arciduchessa d'Austria, e delle feste date per quest' oggetto. (A spese di Paolo di Simone stampatore, 1772), by Carlo Nolli, Carlo Galli Bibiena, and Luigi Vanvitelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tyson's diagrams of New York theatres : choice reserved seats and boxes for all places of amusement. (Geo. F. Churchill, 9-15 Murray St., 1910), by Tyson & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teatro municipale ([Rome, Italy] : [Giuseppe Mengoni], [1853?], 1853), by Antonio Lovatti, Giuseppe Mengoni, Tommaso Labruzzi, Pio Bertoni, Paolo Cacchiatelli, and Romualdo Gentilucci (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notizia generale de' teatri della citta di Venezia : scritta l'anno MDCCLXVI (Appresso Pietro Savioni, 1766), by Antonio Groppo and Nicolas Boindin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The stage in the Greek theatre according to the extant dramas. (New Haven, 1891), by Edward Capps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teatri musicali di Venezia nel settecento (Visentini, 1892), by Taddeo Wiel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Album de l'Office des théatres, 15 Boulevard des Italiens, a coté du Café anglais. ([publisher not identified], in the 19th century) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespearean playhouses; a history of English theatres from the beginnings to the restoration. (Constable and Co., 1920), by Joseph Quincy Adams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Issues of The Season, the Stage, Fifth Avenue theatre, the Matinee, and the Prompter interspersed and bound in chronological order, August 16, 1869 - July 19, 1871. (New York, 1869) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The theatre of tomorrow (T. Fisher Unwin, ltd., 1923), by Kenneth Macgowan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Deutsches theater. (F. Hirt, 1923), by Friedrich Michael (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Všeobecně přístupné knihovny, čítárny a musea, stále zřízená divadle a jeviště v království Českém r. 1905. (V Praze : Nákladem vlastním v komisi knihkupectví Fr. Řivnáče, 1910., 1910), by Zemský statistický úřad Království českého (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Bühneneinrichtungen des Mannheimer Nationaltheaters unter Dalbergs Leitung (1778-1803) (Gesellschaft für Theatergeschichte, 1927), by Kurt Sommerfeld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Modern opera houses & theatres (B.T. Batsford, 1897), by Edwin O. Sachs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parallèle des principaux théâtres modernes de l'Europe et des machines théâtrales françaises, allemandes et anglaises (A. Lévy fils, 1860), by Joseph de Filippi and Clément Contant (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American stage : [exhibition], April 13-May 26, 1957, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (The Gallery, 1957), by Corcoran Gallery of Art (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• General instructions manual for theatre managers, by E. M. Glucksman. (Chicago show printing co.], 1930), by E. M. Glucksman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Iscrizioni esistenti sui sedili di teatri ed anfiteatri antichi : Tavola XII.. (Lipsia : F. A. Brockhouse, [1857], 1857), by E. Hübner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meijiza monogatari (Kabuki Shuppanbu, 1928), by Kinka Kimura (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Official diagram book of all the leading theatres, concert halls, athletic fields and baseball parks. (Ridgefield Press, 1923), by Ridgefield Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scenes and machines on the English stage during the renaissance, a classical revival (Barnes and Noble, 1960), by Lily Bess Campbell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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