Various publishers, 1825-1850. Contemporary notations on the front blanks, listing the plays present; notations in pencil and ink on several of the individual plays, with information about the cast of characters, where the play was performed, etc. The majority are American reprints of English plays, but they are contemporary plays.....
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London: Printed for F. C. & J. Rivington, 1822. First edition. Tinker 221; NCBEL III, 409. ¶ The second published work by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849), a famous tragedy written when he was 16 which was praised by several of the principal participants in the Romantic movement. It is suitably.....
London: Printed [for Edmund Curll] in the Year 1730. First edition. Lowe, English Theatrical Literature, 2642; NCBEL II, 751; MacDonald, Dryden, 332. ¶ The first attempt at a biography of playwright and author William Congreve (1670-1729), attributed by Ralph Straus in The Unspeakable Curll, to historian and dramatist John Oldmixon.....
(London:) Drawn, etch'd & pub.by Dighton, Charing Cross, April, 1799. The earliest recorded portrait of Thomas John Dibdin. NCBEL III, 1129-30. A fine portrait of the actor and writer, Thomas John Dibdin (1771-1841), who like the other famous thespian Dibdins, was involved in the English theater from an early age.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1954. First edition. Gallup A64a; NCBEL IV, 161. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
See Lowe, Arnott and Robinson, English Theatrical Literature, 1163-1172. A gathering of five important pamphlets dealing with the acrimonious dispute between two groups of partners of the Covent Garden Theatre - usually referred to as the “Proprietors' Dispute” - a quarrel that began in 1767 when two of the partners.....
London: Printed for J. Bell, 1786. First edition. Sabin 61167; ESTC T43897. An opera in part based on Marmontel's Tale of the Coralie, with music by James Hook (1746-1827). A note on the front free endpaper in a learned bookseller's hand attributes the authorship to Harriet Horncastle Hook, the wife.....
London: Printed for J. Watts, 1732. First edition, first state of signatures B and C-F. ESTC T89776; Cross, pages 294-5; NCBEL II, 927. A satirical comedy by Henry Fielding (1707-1754) about a destitute couple who plot to defraud a wanton nobleman. It had an initial run at Drury Lane of.....
London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1724. First edition, first state with A4 not canceled. Rothschild 923; NCBEL II, 498; ESTC T13811. One of John Gay's lessor known works, a tragedy that met with little success and has been long overshadowed by The Beggar's Opera, but it has a clever, humorous.....
Philadelphia: Published by Asbury Dickins . . . H. Maxwell, Printer, 1801. First edition. American Bibliography 700; Hill, American Plays, 144. The first book by Charles Jared Ingersoll (1782-1862), a Philadelphian who later became a prominent congressman and lawyer. Edwy and Elgiva was successfully performed at Philadelphia’s Chestnut Street Theater.....
London: Printed by T. Plummer for G. and J. Robinson, 1802. First edition. Roff, Charles & Mary Lamb, pages 47-52; NCBEL III, 1225 (Charles Lamb) and 1291 (Mary Lamb). ¶ Lamb's first play - “a tale of witch craft” which was never performed. Upon hearing that it was being published.....
London: Printed for John Murray, 1812. First edition. NCBEL III, 1211. ¶ Landor's first published play, an historical drama based on the Spaniard, Julian, Count of Ceuta, and his quarrel with Roderic and the tragic consequences it had on Spain.
London: Martin Secker, 1933. First edition. Roberts A65; NCBEL IV, 481. ¶ From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
London: Printed for E. Symon, J. Roberts and A. Dodd, 1723. First edition. ESTC N9868. A translation and adaptation of Racine's La Thébaide. The anonymous dedication states "This tragedy was writ by a young lady, and entrusted to my management . . . The four first acts are taken chiefly.....
(New York, 1941-42). The Moon is Down was John Steinbeck's second attempt at converting one of his novels into a play (Of Mice and Men was the first). It was originally written while Steinbeck was on assignment from the Foreign Information Service, a division of the Office of Strategic Services.....
New York: Privately Printed, 1933. Second edition, considerably rewritten. OCLC 20222941 records three copies (Harvard, La Salle and Brown). A three-act operetta by American author Owen Wister (1860-1938) on the follies of prohibition. Macmillan published the first edition in 1923, as it had been performed at the Tavern Club in.....
London: Printed by J. M. for Henry Herringman and Thomas Dring, 1673. First edition. This copy is the issue without the tailpiece on the recto of Q2. ESTC R12858; Wing W-3744; Pforzheimer 1099; NCBEL II, 742. ¶ The uncommon second play (of four) by poet William Wycherley (1640-1716), a satire.....