Author: Sheridan, R B [ Richard Brinsley ] - Bickerstaff, Isaac - Gay, John - Dibdin, C [ Charles ] - Arnold, Samuel James & Oxberry, W [ William ]
Title: The Duenna, An Opera [bound with] Lionel And Clarissa, An Opera [bound with] The Beggar's Opera [bound with] The Quaker, A Comic Opera [bound with] The Deserter, A Musical Drama [bound with] The Shipwreck, A Comic Opera
Description: published for the proprietors, by W Simpkin & R Marshall, Stationers Court, Ludgate Street ; & C Chaple, 66 Pall Mall, 1818 - 1820, reprint. Half calf over marbled boards, P+. vi+61+viii+65+viii+84+tp+vi+23+tp+iv+6+vi+8+ii pp, engraved frontis to each title, small diagram showing the 'desposition of the characters when the curtain falls', Ex Libris Baliol Holloway with his signature to the pastedown, upper board detached & spine missing, pages generally clean with a few marks & stains, occasional foxing, a fair set. Oxberry's New English Drama vols 10, 12, 8, 54, 59 & 9 respectively. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ A footnote on the title page after each title it reads 'With prefatory remarks. The only edition existing which is faithfully marked with the stage business, and stage directions, as it is performed at the Theatres Royal'. Six plays with introduction & notes by William Oxberry [ 1784 - 1824 ] the English actor who also wrote extensively on the theatre. Baliol Holloway [ 1883 - 1967 ] Shakespearian actor, pasted to the endpaper is a Low cartoon of him in probably his most famous role - Richard III.

Keywords: theatre, stage, english drama, english literature