Shelfmark
Krr.3.18(02)
Author
Title
Oroonoko. A tragedy. By Thomas Southern. Adapted for theatrical representation. As performed at the Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden. Regulated from the prompt-books, 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
vi, [3], 10-124 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm. (12mo)
Note
Also issued as: 'Bell's British theatre', London 1797, vol. 19 -- ESTC.
Note
Signatures: A-K⁶ L².
Note
Adapted by Thomas Southerne from Aphra Behn's 'Ooronoko : or, the Royal Slave' (1688).
Citation/references note
ESTC, N19275
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
Bound with three other plays printed by John Ball, 1791-2: Otway, 'Venice Preserved' (Krr.3.18(01)); Southerne, 'Isabella, or the Fatal Marriage' (Krr.3.18(03)); Franklin, 'The Earl of Warwick' (Krr.3.18(03)).
Subject
Slavery Suriname Drama.
Subject
English drama (Tragedy) Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Bell, John, 1745 - 1831 bookseller.
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Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50476