Barker's complete list of plays : exhibiting at one view the title, size, date, and author, from the commencement of theatrical performances, to 1803 : to which is added A continuation to The theatrical remembrancer, designed to shew collectively each author's work.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oulton, Walley Chamberlain, 1770?-1820?

Contributor:

Oulton, Walley Chamberlain, 1770?-1820?.

Barker & Son.

M.A. Shaaber Fund for the Furness Shakespeare Library.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Bibliography.

English drama.

Theater--Great Britain--History.

Theater.

Great Britain.

History.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Penn Provenance:

Forrest, Edwin, Estate of (Donor) (Forrest copy)

Physical Description:

iv, 350 pages ; 18 cm (12mo)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed and Published by Barker and Son, [1803]

Notes:

"Compiled by W.C. Oulton, who signs the advertisement. This is merely a reissue of Barker's Continuation, with a new title leaf, and an appendix (pp. 337-350) ..."--Northup.

Printer statement from colophon.

Interleaved.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the M.A. Shaaber Fund for the Furness Shakespeare Library.

Forrest copy imperfect: upper half of title leaf mounted; all between title leaf and p. [129] wanting.

Furness copy imperfect: contains bottom half of title-leaf and up to p.128 (heavily interleaved and annotated). All else wanting.

Furness copy bound with: Egerton, John. Egerton's theatrical remembrancer. London : Printed for T. and J. Egerton, at the Military Library..., 1788.

Cited in:

Northup, C. Register of bib. of the Engl. lang. and lit. 1882

Baker, D.E. Biographia dramatica p. 556

Related Work:

Oulton, Walley Chamberlain, 1770?-1820?. Barker's continuation of Egerton's Theatrical remembrancer, Baker's Biographia dramatica, &c.

OCLC:

150529695