Shelfmark
Krr.3.20(10)
Author
Title
Slasher and Crasher! : an original farce : in one act / by John Maddison Morton, member of the Dramatic Authors' Society, [...] .
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Thomas Hailes Lacy, Wellington Street, Strand, [between 1848 and 1857?] ([London] : printed by Thomas Scott, Warwick Court, Holborn)
Physical description
21, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (frontis.) ; 17 cm.
Note
Title page verso: First produced at the Royal Adelphi Theatre, November 16th, 1848.
Note
Date of publication suggested by date of first performance, and dates of activity of the bookseller at the imprint address and of the printer.
Note
Printer's information derived from p. 21.
Note
Includes directions for the disposition of characters at curtain close (p. 21).
Note
Engraved frontispiece depicts a scene from "Act 1. Scene last"; engraver unnamed.
With note
Bound with 15 other plays, shelfmarks Krr.3.20(01) - (09), (11) - (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. underlinings, pointers, annotations, and corrections to the text in (at least one) 19th-century hand, in pencil and pen, throughout. Additionally, a note in a 19th hand on reverse of frontispiece: "the alterations of page 8. etc will I am sure suit all parties". It is unclear whether this annotation pertains to this or the previous item in the sammelband, Krr.3.20(09), since manuscript emendations are present in both items).
Copy-specific note
Ms. annotations in a 19th-century hand on title-page verso , with names of actors inscribed interlinearly to the printed cast of characters: for Benjamin Blowhard, "W. Palk"; for Sampson Slasher, "F.B." [i.e. Francis Burnand?]; for Christopher Crasher, "H.W."; for Lieutenant Brown, "A.H.W."; for John, "P.W."; for Dinah Blowhard, "S.W."; and for Rosa, "E. W." [?].
Genre/Form
Plays.
Genre/Form
Comedies.
Added entry--name
Lacy, Thomas Hailes, 1809 - 1873 publisher.
Added entry--name
Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836 - 1917 former owner.
Added entry--name
Scott, Thomas, active 1853 - 1886 printer.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50546