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Shelfmark

Krr.3.19(05)

Author

Title

Open house; or, the twin sisters: a farce, in two acts, by John Baldwin Buckstone, esq. ... Printed from the acting copy, with remarks, biographical and critical, by D-G. To which are added, a description of the costume, ... and the whole of the stage business, as now performed at the Theatres Royal, London..

Publication, distribution, etc.

London: : John Cumberland, 2, Cumberland Terrace, Camden New Town., [c.1833]

Physical description

44 p. : ill. (frontis.) ; 14cm

Series statement

(Cumberland's British theatre)

Note

Pagination continuous but with some prelims. in roman numerals; frontispiece included in pagination.

Note

Probably issued as part of Cumberland's British Theatre series, although this information is not given in the copy described.

Note

Remarks by 'D-G' i.e. George Daniel, series editor.

Note

Additionally on title-page: "Embellished with a fine engraving, by Mr. White, from a Drawing taken in the Theatre, by Mr. R. Cruikshank."

Note

Directions for "Disposition of the charcters at the fall of the curtain." on p.44.

Note

Publication date inferred from p.[8], "Cast of the Characters, ... Haymarket, 1833."

With note

Bound with 11 other plays issued either by Thomas Dolby or John Cumberland, shelfmarks Krr.3.19(01) - (04), (06) - (12).

Provenance

Ms. signature in pencil, undated and name unread, of a "Professor of [?Gl...]", on title-page recto of first item in sammelband (Krr.3.19(01)).

Binding

Sammelband. 19th-century three-quarter leather with blue marbled paper; blind-tooled dotted roll at edges of leather. Spine flat, divided into five compartments by horizontal gilt double fillets flanked by the same blind roll as on covers, with gilt lettering 'DRAMA' and 'VOL I' in second and fourth compartments thereof; blue false headbands. Textblock trimmed with some minor loss to printed text; edges sprinked red; endpapers undecorated.

Subject

English drama (Comedy) 19th century.

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England London.

Language code

eng

Identifier

B50492
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