Shelfmark
Krr.3.20(06)
Author
Title
The serious family ; a comedy, in three acts, by Morris Barnett, Esq., as first performed at the Theatre Royal, Hay-Market, correctly printed from the prompter's copy; with the cast of characters, costume, scenic arrangement, sides of entrance and exit, and relative positions of the dramatis personae ; with an engraving on wood by Mr. W. Smith ; taken during the representation of the piece.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Published at the National Acting Drama Office, 19, Suffolk Street, Pall Mall East; "Nassau Stem Press" 60, St. Martin's Lane, Charing Cross; to be had of Strange, Paternoster Row; Wiseheart, Suffolk Street, Dublin; and all respectable booksellers., [1849?] (London : W. S. Johnson, "Nassau Steam Press," 60, St. Martin's Lane)
Physical description
40 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (frontis., wood engraving) ; 17 cm.
Note
A translation and adaptation of 'Le Mari à la campagne' (first performed 1844) by Jean-François Bayard.
Note
Publication date suggested by description of first performance (Tuesday, October 30, 1849) on p. 3.
Note
Printer's information derived from imprint (partial; lacking associated name) and on title-page verso (complete).
Note
Diagram of the 'Disposition of Characters' on p. 40.
With note
Bound with 15 other plays, shelfmarks Krr.3.20(01) - (05), (07) - (16).
Provenance
Ms. inscription on first free endpaper recto (of sammelband): "F. C. Burnand / lent to the A.D.C. [i.e. Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club?]".
Binding
Sammelband. 19th-century quarter straight-grain leather with green marbled paper; pasteboard. Spine flat, divided by horizontal gilt single fillets into 6 compartments, of which the second (from head of spine) has gilt lettering "Plays". Endpapers undecorated; textblock sprinkled red. Board edges worn, exposing pasteboard.
Subject
Bayard, Jean-François-Alfred, 1796 - 1853 Mari à la campagne Adaptations.
Genre/Form
Plays.
Genre/Form
Comedies.
Added entry--name
Strange, W. (William) bookseller.
Added entry--name
Wiseheart, John, active 19th century - ? bookseller.
Added entry--name
Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836 - 1917 former owner.
Added entry--name
Nassau Press (London, England) printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50539