Krr.3.20(10)
Slasher and Crasher! : an original farce : in one act / by John Maddison Morton, member of the Dramatic Authors' Society, [...] .
London : Thomas Hailes Lacy, Wellington Street, Strand, [between 1848 and 1857?] ([London] : printed by Thomas Scott, Warwick Court, Holborn)
21, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (frontis.) ; 17 cm.
Title page verso: First produced at the Royal Adelphi Theatre, November 16th, 1848.
Date of publication suggested by date of first performance, and dates of activity of the bookseller at the imprint address and of the printer.
Printer's information derived from p. 21.
Includes directions for the disposition of characters at curtain close (p. 21).
Engraved frontispiece depicts a scene from "Act 1. Scene last"; engraver unnamed.
Bound with 15 other plays, shelfmarks Krr.3.20(01) - (09), (11) - (16).
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?]".
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.
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).
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." [?].
Lacy, Thomas Hailes, 1809 - 1873 publisher.
Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836 - 1917 former owner.
Scott, Thomas, active 1853 - 1886 printer.
England London.
eng
B50546