Shelfmark
Krr.3.46(30)
Author
Title
The foundling. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden. Written by Mr. Moore..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for Harrison and Co. No 18, Paternoster-Row; and sold, likewise, by J. Wenman, Fleet-Street; and all other booksellers., MDCCLXXX. [1780]
Physical description
18 p., [1] leaf of plates; 22 cm.
Note
Possibly issued with 'The school-boy; or, comical rival'.
Note
Title-page and preliminaries included in pagination.
Note
Printed in two columns.
Note
Prologue written by Henry Brooke; Epilogue written by David Garrick.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T40069
Provenance
No provenance information recorded in the book.
Binding
Sammelband. Late 18th- or early 19th-century half speckled calf and brown speckled or marbled paper over pasteboard. Spine rounded, divided into six large compartments by transverse gilt single fillets; second compartment from head of spine has title-label with gilt lettering; false headbands of alternating red and green thread. Textblock trimmed and rounded. Endpapers comprising at both sides a single bifolium of laid paper, forming a pastedown with free endpaper; undecorated.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: wanting the plate.
Copy-specific note
Bookseller's code on upper endpaper recto of sammelband.
Copy-specific note
Bound with 37 other items, shelfmarks Krr.3.46(01) - (29), (31) - (38).
Subject
English drama (Comedy) 18th century.
Genre/Form
Plays.
Genre/Form
Comedies.
Added entry--name
Wenman, Joseph, ? - -1790 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Brooke, Henry, 1703? - 1783 joint author.
Added entry--name
Garrick, David, 1717 - 1779 joint author.
Added entry--name
Harrison and Co. (London, England) bookseller.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50765