Shelfmark
Krr.3.20(11)
Author
Title
The ringdoves. A farce, in one act, by Mr. Charles Mathews, member of the Dramatic Author's [sic] Society. As performed at Madame Vestris's Royal Olympic Theatre ; correctly printed from the prompter's copy, with the cast of characters, costume, scenic arrangement, side of entrance and exit, and relative positions of the dramatis personae ; splendidly illustrated with an engraving by Mr. Brewer, 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 Press," 60, St. Martin's Lane, Charing Cross ; to be had of Strange, Paternoster Row; Wiseheart, Suffolk Street, Dublin; and all respectable booksellers., [1837?]
Physical description
[1], 28 p. : ill. (frontis.) ; 17 cm.
Note
Date of publication suggested by date of first performance; see title page verso: "First produced at the Royal Adelphi Theatre, November 16th, 1848."
Note
Title-page and preliminaries (excluding frontispiece) included in pagination.
Note
Includes directions for the disposition of characters at curtain close (p. 28).
With note
Bound with 15 other plays, shelfmarks Krr.3.20(01) - (10), (12) - (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 and pointers in pencil throughout.
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) publisher.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50547