Edwin Sachs

Edwin Sachs (co-)authored the following works: • Modern Opera Houses and Theatres, published by B.T. Batsford, London UK, reissued by Benjamin Blom, New York in 1968. • Volume I (1896), co-author: Ernest A. E. Woodrow. • Volume II (1897). • Volume III (1898). • Supplement: Stage Construction: Examples of Modern Stages Selected from Playhouses Recently Erected in Europe With Descriptive and Critical Text (1898). • Fires and Public Entertainments: A Study of Some 1100 Notable Fires at Theatres, Music Halls, Circus Buildings and Temporary Structures During the Last 100 Years, published by Charles and Edwin Layton, London UK (1897). Contributions to publications of the British Fire Prevention Committee: • The Paris Charity Bazaar Fire, published by the British Fire Prevention Committee, London UK (1898). • Facts On Fire Prevention; the Results of Fire Tests Conducted by the British Fire Prevention Committee, published by B.T. Batsford, London UK (1902). • A Record of the International Fire Exhibition, Earl's Court, London, 1903, Organised Under the Auspices of the British Fire Prevention Committee...: Together With a Report On Some of the Exhibition Events, published for London Exhibitions Ltd. by the British Fire Prevention Committee, London UK (1903?). • The Brussels Exhibition Fire: With Some Suggestions As to Safeguards at Future Temporary Exhibitions Set Out in the Form of Model Regulations, published by the British Fire Prevention Committee, London UK (1911). Sachs also contributed to the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, notably the section "Modern Stage Mechanism" in the article "Theatre". In this section, much information from his works Modern Opera Houses and Theatres was used. The section is signed with his initials (E. O. S.).