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Don Giovanni, or, A spectre on horseback! : a comic, heroic, operatic, tragic, pantomimic burletta-spectacular extravaganza; in two acts; as performed at the Royal Circus and Surrey Theatre / by Thomas Dibdin ; the action and dances under the direction of Mr. Bologna and Mr. Giroux.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection EC8 D5443 817d 1818
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Dibdin, Thomas, 1771-1841.
Contributor:
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Genre:
Drama.
Penn Provenance:
Cooke, T. P. (Thomas Potter), 1786-1864 (bookplate) (former owner)
Toole, John Lawrence, 1830-1906 (inscription)
Cumming, Hugh (autograph)
Dibdin, Thomas, 1771-1841 (inscription)
Bonnell, Henry H. (Henry Houston), 1859-1926 (autograph) (donor)
Physical Description:
32 pages ; 22 cm
Edition:
Fourth edition.
Other Title:
Spectre on horseback
Place of Publication:
London : printed for John Miller by B. M'Millan, 1818.
Notes:
A burlesque on Mozart's opera Don Giovanni.
Without the music.
Local Notes:
Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Thomas Potter Cooke.
Culture Class Collection copy previously owned by Thomas Potter Cooke. Two the plays in this volume have been marked for performance by Cooke with notes, stage directions, additions and cuts. Pasted to the front free endpaper is a letter (within mourning bands), written on behalf of Cooke's daughter, by her husband, Hugh Cumming, presenting the volume to actor John Lawrence Toole.
Culture Class Collection copy has With the author's respects written on the t.p.
Culture Class Collection copy is no. 1 in a vol. of 6 works bound together.
Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Henry H. Bonnell.
OCLC:
13381297

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