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Shelfmark

Krr.3.20(13)

Author

Title

The Irish lion. A farce, in one act. By John Baldwin Buckstone, Esq. ... ; as performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket ; correctly printed from the prompter's copy, with the cast of characters, costume, scenic arrangement, sides of entrance and exit, and relative positions of the dramatis personae ; illustrated with an etching, by Pierce Egan the Younger, from a drawing taken during the representation..

Publication, distribution, etc.

London: : Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand., [1838?] ([London] : Whiting, Beaufort House, Strand)

Physical description

[1], 20 p. : ill. (frontis.) ; 17 cm.

Note

Also issued as part The acting national drama, vol.4, 1838, with separate title page having imprint: London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Pater-noster Row.

Note

Date of publication suggested by date of first performance; see p. 2: "First performed June 13, 1838."

Note

Printer's information derived from colophon (p. 20).

With note

Bound with 15 other plays, shelfmarks Krr.3.20(01) - (12), (14) - (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.

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 Mr. Squabbs, "H. Woodgate"; for Mr. Puffy, "[?]S Woodgate"; for Wadd, "H. Woodgate"; for Tom More, "F. Burnand"; for Captain Dixon, "[?]A Woodgate"; for Ginger, "Sid. Woodgate"; for John Long, "P. Woodgate"; for Mrs. Cerulea Fizgig, "Miss E Woodgate"; and for Miss Echo, "[unread]".

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Chapman and Hall publisher.

Added entry--place

England London.

Language code

eng

Identifier

B50562
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