Krr.3.20(16)
The writing on the wall! : a melo-drama, in three acts / by Thomas and J. M. Morton, members of the Dramatic Authors' Society ...
London : Thomas Hailes Lacy, Wellington Street, Strand,, [1852?] ([London] : Printed by Thomas Scott, Warwick Court, Holborn)
48 p. ; 17 cm.
Date of publication suggested by date of first performance; see title-page verso: "First performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, Monday, August 9th, 1852."
Printer's information derived from colophon (p. 48).
Title-page and preliminaries included in pagination.
Includes cast of characters and actors, costumes, and description (in various typefaces) of the 'New Scenery'.
Includes directions for the disposition of characters at curtain close (p. 48).
Bound with 15 other plays, shelfmarks Krr.3.20(01) - (15).
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.
Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836 - 1917 former owner.
Lacy, Thomas Hailes, 1809 - 1873 publisher.
Scott, Thomas, active 1853 - 1886 printer.
England London.
eng
B50565