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Shelfmark

Krr.3.20(14)

Author

Title

My friend in the straps : a farce, in one act / by Charles Selby, comedian, ... ; correctly printed from the prompter's copy, with the cast of characters, scenic arrangements, sides of entrance and exit, and relative positions of the dramatis personae ; illustrated with an engraving by Mr. Wall, taken during the representation of the piece.

Publication, distribution, etc.

London : Published at the National Acting Drama Office, 19, Suffolk Street, Pall Mall East ; W. S. Johnson, "Nassau Steam Press," 60, Saint Martin's Lane ; Messrs. Piper & Co., and W. Strange, Paternoster Row ; Vickers and Berger, Holywell Street ; Allen, Warwick Lane ; John Heywood, Manchester ; Wiseheart, Suffolk Street, Dublin ; John Sutherland & Co., Edinburgh ; Fetridge, Boston U.S. ; and all good booksellers, [1850?]

Physical description

23, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (frontispiece) ; 17 cm.

Note

Date of publication suggested by date of first performance; see title-page verso: "First Performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, on Thursday, 24th October, 1850."

Note

Includes diagrammatic directions for the disposition of characters at curtain close (p. 23).

With note

Bound with 15 other plays, shelfmarks Krr.3.20(01) - (13), (15) - (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.

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Strange, W. (William) bookseller.

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England London.

Language code

eng

Identifier

B50564
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