Ruddigore : prompt book : manuscript additions and annotations on printed text in the hand of Cairns James.

Unsigned and undated; with bookplates on front flyleaf and pastedown, one bearing James's address at "5, Clements Inn, Strand", and another with his monogram "LCJ".
Lewis Cairns James was the principal comic baritone on tour with Mr. D'Oyly Carte's "B" Company between July 1887 and September 1891. In July 1887 he replaced W. R. Shirley as Robin Oakapple in Ruddigore, performing in the role until June 1888 when "B" Company was disbanded; James left D'Oyly Carte in 1891, but is known to have directed amateur operatic societies in Gilbert & Sullivan in Croydon (1920s) and Woolwich (1938-42).
Prompt book consists of a lined notebook into which the pages of the printed libretto of Ruddigore have been individually pasted on the recto of the first 42 leaves and extensively annotated, with the printed text preceded by a stage diagram for Act 1 and stage directions, diagrams, and cues written on the printed text and the verso of the leaves facing the printed text in red and black ink and pencil.