Shelfmark
Krr.3.09(01)
Author
Title
Coriolanus; or, The Roman matron : a tragedy by W. Shakspeare ; with prefatory remarks ; the only edition existing which is faithfully marked with the stage business, and stage directions, as it is performed at the Theatres Royal ; by W. Oxberry, comedian.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Published for the proprietors, by W. Simpkin, and R. Marshall, Stationers' Court, Ludgate-Street, and C. Chapple, 66, Pall-Mall, 1820.
Physical description
[2], iii, [3], 62 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 15 cm.
Series statement
(Oxberry's new English drama ; no. 39)
Note
At head of title: Oxberry's edition.
Note
Printer statement on title-page verso: From the press of W. Oxberry and Co. 8 White-hart-yard.
Note
Engraved portrait of Edmund Kean as Coriolanus.
Note
Stage diagram on p. 62: "Disposition of the characters when the curtain falls".
Provenance
Annotated with stage directions and notes in the hand of W. C. Macready.
Provenance
Ms. note laid down inside front cover of volume: "This book was the property of the late eminent tragedian Mr Macready & marked by himself. J.T."
Provenance
Loosely inserted mid-20th-century printed admission ticket to Everyman Theatre Hampstead, bearing typescript note on verso about the loan of of the volume by Allan Wilkie, with additional ms. note "Little Theatre, Citizen House, Bath". Possibly the actor Allan Wilkie (1878-1970).
Provenance
Ms. inscription at head of title: "George [?Rignold] with best wishes T. H. Lennard March 16th 1909". Possibly actor George Rignold (1839-1912).
Binding
Sammelband. Plain 19th-century card covers; spine reinforced with 20th-century tape; front cover marked "No. 23".
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: wanting the wrappers and the engraved portrait of Kean as Coriolanus.
Copy-specific note
Bound with another item, shelfmark Krr.3.09(02): Oxberry's edition of Henry VIII.
Subject
Acting editions of famous plays.
Added entry--name
Oxberry, W. (William), 1784 - 1824 printer.
Added entry--name
Chapple, Clement publisher.
Added entry--name
Macready, William Charles, 1793 - 1873 former owner, annotator.
Added entry--name
Rignold, George Richard, 1839 - 1912 associated name.
Added entry--name
Wilkie, Allan, 1878 - 1970 former owner.
Added entry--name
Simpkin and Marshall publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50416