The rose of Persia, or, The story-teller and the slave : prompt book : manuscript additions and annotations on printed text in the hand of Cairns James.

Unsigned and undated; with a label on the front cover of the volume inscribed in ink: Cairns James / Prompt Book.
Lewis Cairns James was the principal comic baritone on tour with Mr. D'Oyly Carte's "B" Company between July 1887 and September 1891. James left D'Oyly Carte in 1891, and subsequently left the London Stage between 1902 and 1916, during which time he served for a time as Professor of Elocution at the Royal College of Music, Guildhall School of Music, and taught at his own School of Musical and Dramatic Art in London. Following his retirement from the professional stage in 1923, James 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 [2]-65 of the printed text of Basil Hood's libretto for Arthur Sullivan's opera, The rose of Persia, have been individually pasted on the recto of the first 63 leaves and extensively annotated, with the printed text preceded by a prop list and stage diagram, 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.