Shelfmark
Krr.3.24
Author
Title
The modern theatre; a collection of successful modern plays, as acted at the Theatres Royal, London. Printed from the prompt books under the authority of the managers. Selected by Mrs Inchbald. Vol. V.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, amd [sic] Brown, Paternoster-Row., 1811.. (Edinburgh: : Printed by James Ballantyne & Co., [1811])
Physical description
[1], 336 p. ; 15 cm.
Note
Half-title preceding each play.
Formatted contents note
Contents: False Impressions (Covent Garden) -- The Mysterious Husband (Covent Garden) -- The Box-Lobby Challenge (Haymarket) -- The Natural Son (Covent Garden) -- The Carmelite (Drury Lane).
Provenance
No provenance information recorded in the book.
Binding
Contemporary half-leather binding with brown marbled paper over millboard. Spine flat, divided by transverse gold-tooled fillets into five compartments; of which, the head and tail filled with a diaper quatrefoil pattern, the inner compartments with gilt lettering ('Inchbald's British Theatre'; 'Vol. XXX'; 'Modern Theatre'). Textblock trimmed and ?speckled. Endpapers undecorated; one sheet pasted down, with two free endpapers.
Copy-specific note
Volume 5 only (of 10 volumes).
Copy-specific note
All five plays in volume written by Richard Cumberland.
Subject
English drama Early works to 1800.
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Cumberland, Richard, 1732 - 1811 author.
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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown publisher.
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James Ballantyne and Co. printer.
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England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50571