Shelfmark
Krr.3.18(03)
Author
Title
Isabella; or, the fatal marriage. A tragedy, altered from 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., MDCCXCII. [1792]
Physical description
iv, [3], 8-78 p., [2] leaves of plates ; 15 cm.
Note
Adapted by David Garrick from Southern's 'The fatal marriage'. (ESTC)
Note
Also issued as part of: 'Bell's British theatre', London 1797, v. 5, London, 1797. (ESTC)
Citation/references note
ESTC, N16693
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 published by John Ball, 1791-2: Otway, 'Venice Preserved' (Krr.3.18(01)); Southerne, 'Oroonoko' (Krr.3.18(02)); Franklin, 'The Earl of Warwick' (Krr.3.18(04)).
Subject
English drama (Tragedy) Early works to 1800.
Subject
Marriage 18th century Drama.
Genre/Form
Tragedies.
Genre/Form
Plays.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Bell, John, 1745 - 1831 bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50477