Shelfmark
Ib3.4.63
Title
Scenes from the rejected comedies / by some of the competitors for the prize of £500 offered by Mr. B. Webster, lessee of the Haymarket Theatre, for the best original comedy, illustrative of English manners.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Published at the Punch Office, 194, Strand., MDCCCXLIV. [1844]
Physical description
48 p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Note
Parodies by Gilbert À Beckett of scenes from plays by James Sheridan Knowles and nine other playwrights of the day. À Beckett included himself, in a scene from "The school for sentiment".
Note
Colophon: "Bradbury and Evans, printers, Whitefriars".
Formatted contents note
Scene from The husband/ by J---s S---n K---s - Humbugs of the hour/ by D---s J---d - Scene from The Templars : a rejected comedy/ by Serjt. T---d - The absurdities of a day/ by J.R. P---e - Jane Jenkins, or, The ghost of the back drawing room/ by E. F---zb-- -ll - Floreat Etona/ by D.L. B---t - A story of London/ by Le-- -h H---t - The school for sentiment, or, The tar! the tear!! and the tilbury/ by G---t A---t a'B---t - Grandmother Browning/ by M---k L-- -n - Scene from Credit/ by Sir E.L.B.L.E.D. B---r.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Lewis Vernon Harcourt.
Provenance
Eton College Library ink stamp on title page verso.
Binding
19th century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge.
Copy-specific note
Ms. inscription on rear flyleaf: "Said to have been written by Gilbert abbot a Beckett".
Copy-specific note
A piece of paper with a pasted extract from bookseller's catalogue and ms. inscription "The above contains these scenes from reprinted comdies, in addition to some other matter, which is not, however, of a parody caracter. LV. H." pasted on rear flyleaf.
Subject
English drama (Comedy)
Added entry--name
Harcourt, Lewis Vernon (), 1863 - 1922 former owner.
Added entry--name
A Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811 - 1856
Added entry--name
Punch Office publisher.
Added entry--name
Bradbury & Evans printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B35473