Shelfmark
Krr.3.20(12)
Author
Brough, Robert B., 1828 - 1860 (Robert Barnabas),
Title
The enchanted isle; or, "Raising the wind" on the most approved principles : a drama without the smallest claim to legitimacy, consistency, probability, or anything else but absurdity; in which will be found much that is unaccountably coincident with Shakspere's "Tempest." by the brothers Brough ; as first performed at the Theatre Royal, Adelphi ; correctly printed from the prompter's copy, with the cast of characters, scenic arrangement, sides of entrance and exit, and relative positions of the dramatic 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 Steam Press," 60, St. Martin's Lane, Charing Cross ; to be had of Strange, Paternoster Row; Wiseheart, Suffolk Street, Dublin; and all respectable booksellers., [1848?]
Physical description
32 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (frontis.) ; 17 cm.
Series statement
(Webster's acting national drama ; no. 152)
Note
Date of publication suggestion by date of first performance; see p. 2: "First performed Monday, Nov. 20th, 1848."
With note
Bound with 15 other plays, shelfmarks Krr.3.20(01) - (11), (13) - (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
Imperfect: wanting the engraved frontispiece.
Copy-specific note
Ms. underlinings, pointers, annotations, and corrections to the text in (at least one) 19th-century hand, in pencil and pen, throughout.
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 Alonza, "H. Woodgate [...] scene"; for Ferdinand, "F. Burnand"; for Gonzalo, "F. Burnand / Ashley / H. Woodgate"; for Prospero, "H. Woodgate"; for Caliban, "F. Burnand"; for Courtiers, "I ...[? Name unread]; for Easa di Baccastoppa, "H. Woodgate"; and for Smuttifacio, "Ashley".
Subject
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Strange, W. (William) bookseller.
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Wiseheart, John, active 19th century - ? bookseller.
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Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836 - 1917 former owner.
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Nassau Press (London, England) publisher.
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England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50561