Shelfmark
Krr.3.18(01)
Author
Title
Venice preserved. Or, a plot discovered. A tragedy. by Thomas Otway. Adapted for theatrical representation, as performed at the Theatres-Royal Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden. Regulated from the prompt-book, by permission of the managers..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for the proprietors, under the direction of John Bell, British-Library, Strand, bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales., MDCCXCI. [1791]
Physical description
xiii, [3], 16-122, [2] p., [2] leaves of plates ; 15 cm.
Note
Also issued as: 'Bell's British theatre', vol. 15, London, 1797 -- ESTC.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T50681
Provenance
No provenance information recorded in the book.
Binding
Sammelband. Late 17th- or early 18th-century tree calf covers; outer border of a gold-tooled foliate roll; board edges tooled with a roll of transverse gilt fillets; narrow squares, the turn-ins with a gilt foliate roll. Spine flat and rounded, divided by gilt ornamental rolls into six comparments (in which from head to tail: gilt stamp of a lyre; empty; lyre tool; stamped '14' in a roundel; lyre tool; stamped titling of each play bound within volume); double headbands of alternating brown, white, and blue thread; head and tail of spine protected by (later) strips of calf, one missing. Marbled endpapers; textblock trimmed and rounded.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect?: wanting the additional engraved titlepage?
Copy-specific note
Bound with three other plays printed by John Ball, 1791-2: Southerne, 'Oroonoko' (Krr.3.18(02)); Southerne, 'Isabella, or the Fatal Marriage' (Krr.3.18(03)); Franklin, 'The Earl of Warwick' (Krr.3.18(04)).
Subject
Venice (Italy) History 1508-1797 Drama.
Genre/Form
Plays.
Genre/Form
Tragedies.
Added entry--name
Bell, John, 1745 - 1831 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50473