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Shelfmark

Krr.3.20(16)

Author

Title

The writing on the wall! : a melo-drama, in three acts / by Thomas and J. M. Morton, members of the Dramatic Authors' Society ...

Publication, distribution, etc.

London : Thomas Hailes Lacy, Wellington Street, Strand,, [1852?] ([London] : Printed by Thomas Scott, Warwick Court, Holborn)

Physical description

48 p. ; 17 cm.

Note

Date of publication suggested by date of first performance; see title-page verso: "First performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, Monday, August 9th, 1852."

Note

Printer's information derived from colophon (p. 48).

Note

Title-page and preliminaries included in pagination.

Note

Includes cast of characters and actors, costumes, and description (in various typefaces) of the 'New Scenery'.

Note

Includes directions for the disposition of characters at curtain close (p. 48).

With note

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

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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England London.

Language code

eng

Identifier

B50565
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