Shelfmark
Krr.3.45(03)
Author
Title
The poor gentleman: a comedy, in five acts. As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. (First acted on the 11th of February 1801.) By George Colman (the Younger)..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed by A. Strahan, Pritners-Street; for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, Paternoster-Row., 1802..
Physical description
83, [3], p. ; 21 cm.
Note
Title-page and preliminaries included in pagination.
Note
With a final advertisement leaf.
Note
Prologue written by Francis North.
Note
Dramatis Personae on p. [4].
Note
Price on title-page: "Price Two Shillings and Six-pence."
Provenance
Ms. inscription on upper endpaper recto of sammelband: "Jn Strayne Wilton". In the same hand, follows a list of contents of the sammelband, including this item.
Binding
Sammelband. 19th-century half leather with brown marbled paper over pasteboard. Spine flat and rounded, divided into six compartments by transverse gilt fillets; second compartment from head with onlaid red morocco, with gilt lettering ("Plays"). Textblock trimmed and rounded; endpapers comprising at each end a pastedown and two free endpapers (of laid paper), undecorated.
Copy-specific note
Ms. list of contents, in J. Strayne's hand (see Prov. Note) on upper endpaper recto of sammelband.
Copy-specific note
Bound with 9 other plays, shelfmarks Krr.3.45(01) - (02), (04) - (10).
Subject
English drama (Comedy) 19th century.
Added entry--name
Strahan, Andrew, ? - -1831 printer.
Added entry--name
North, Francis, 1761 - 1817 joint author.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
T.N. Longman and O. Rees bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50712