Shelfmark
Krr.3.14
Title
The British theatre; or, a collection of plays, which are acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket. Printed under the authority of the managers from the prompt books. With biographical and critical remarks, by Mrs. Inchbald. In twenty-five volumes. Vol. XX., Dramatist. Count of Narbonne. Inkle and Yarico. Battle of Hexham. Surrender of Calais.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster Row., 1808..
Physical description
1 v. : ill. (plates) ; 15 cm. (12⁰)
Note
Volume XX of a collection of 125 plays, each with special title-page and separate pagination.
Note
Printer statements vary.
Note
Each play with half-title and engraved frontispiece plate.
Formatted contents note
Contents: Contents: The dramatist; or, Stop him who can! / by Frederick Reynolds. -- The Count of Narbonne / by Robert Jephson. -- Inkle and Yarico / by George Colman, the younger. -- The battle of Hexham, or, Days of old / by George Colman the younger. -- The surrender of Calais / by George Colman the younger.
Provenance
19th-century armorial bookplate of Harry H. Hughes on first upper endpaper recto.
Provenance
Late 18th- or early 19th-century armorial bookplate (partial: helm, crest, and motto only, closely excised) of James Nasmyth on upper pastedown.
Binding
Contemporary three-quarter leather with brown marbled paper over millboard; the calf outlined by double blind fillets; narrow squares. Spine flat (now scuffed and faded), divided into five compartments by double and triple gilt fillets alternatively, three with gilt titling and volume, two with a quatrefoil-in-lozenges roll; false headbands of alternating brown and gold[?]. Textblock speckled blue at all edges; pastedowns plain.
Subject
English drama.
Added entry--name
Inchbald, 1753 - 1821 Mrs.,
Added entry--name
Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50407