Shelfmark
Krr.3.20(09)
Author
Title
A phenomenon in a smock frock : a comic drama, in one act / by William Brough.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Thomas Hailes Lacy, Wellington Street, Strand,, [1852?]
Physical description
20 p. ; 17 cm.
Note
Title-page and preliminaries included in pagination.
Note
Publication date suggested by date of first performance on title page verso: "First produced at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, on Monday, December 13th, 1852."
Note
Includes directions for the disposition of characters at curtain close (p. 20).
With note
Bound with 15 other plays, shelfmarks Krr.3.20(01) - (08), (10) - (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.
Copy-specific note
Ms. annotations in a 19th-century hand on title-page verso, recording performance "at the Lyceum by the 'A.B.C.' March 26th 1857." On the same page, names of four actors inscribed interlinearly to the printed cast of characters: for Mr. Sowerbury, "F. C. Burnand"; for John Buttercup, "Captain F. Gregory"; for Mrs. Barker, "Miss Morell"; and for Betsey Chirrup, "Miss Marie Wilton" [i.e. Marie Bancroft].
Copy-specific note
Ms. underlinings, pointers, annotations, and corrections to the text in (at least one) 19th-century hand throughout, consistent with use as a performance copy. Additionally, annotation on page facing p. 20: "the alterations of page 8. etc will I am sure suit all parties" (n.b., this is written on the reverse of the frontispiece of the following item in the sammelband, Krr.3.20(10), but since manuscript emendations are present in both items, it is unclear to which text this annotation pertains).
Added entry--name
Bancroft, Marie, 1839 - 1921 actor.
Added entry--name
Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836 - 1917 former owner, actor.
Added entry--name
Lacy, Thomas Hailes, 1809 - 1873 publisher.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50545