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.
Genre/Form
Plays.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836 - 1917 former owner.
Added entry--name
Lacy, Thomas Hailes, 1809 - 1873 publisher.
Added entry--name
Scott, Thomas, active 1853 - 1886 printer.
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Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50565