Shelfmark
Krr.3.45(04)
Author
Title
Chains of the Heart, or, the slave by choice. In three acts, as performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. By Prince Hoare. The music composed by Mazzinghi and Reeve.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed and published by Barker and Son, Dramatic Repository, Great Russell-Street, Covent-Garden. Sold also by M. Stace, Princes' Street, Soho., 1802..
Physical description
vi, 92 [i.e. 90] p. ; 21 cm.
Note
Seemingly mispaginated (no leaves wanting). Title-page and preliminaries included in roman numeral pagination.
Note
Epistle dedicatory addressed to the Reverand Richard Graves, Rector of Claverton.
Note
Advertisement after p. vi summarising the historical context of the play.
Note
Dramatis Personae on p. [4].
Note
With music by Joseph Mazzinghi and William Reeve. Advertisement on p. [4]: "The Music is published by Messrs. Goulding and Co. No. 45, Pall-mall; where purchasers leaving their address, will be supplied with the earliest Copies."
Summary, etc.
Subject: A fictional romance involving Christian slaves during the conquest of Ceuta by the Portuguese in 1415, interwoven with "some portion of a favourite French Piece called Gulnare" (Advertisement, p. [4]).
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) - (03), (05) - (10).
Subject
Musicals Librettos.
Subject
Slavery Drama 19th century.
Subject
Portugal Colonies Africa Drama.
Added entry--name
Mazzinghi, Joseph, 1765 - 1844 composer.
Added entry--name
Reeve, W. (William), ? - 1759 composer.
Added entry--name
Barker, James, active 1779 - 1818 printer, publisher.
Added entry--name
Graves, Richard, 1763 - 1829 dedicatee.
Added entry--name
Stace, Machell bookseller.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Goulding & Co. bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50713