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The old maid : a comedy in two acts / by Mr. Murphy ; with a portrait of Mrs. Francis as Miss Harlow ; the plays carefully corrected from the prompt books of the Philadelphia theatre by M. Lopez, prompter.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805.
- Series:
- Acting American theatre
- The acting American theatre.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tasker, L.H. (autograph, 1850)
- Physical Description:
- 35 pages : frontispiece (portrait) ; 19 cm.
- Edition:
- Lopez and Wemyss' edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia] : A.R. Poole, [1826]
- Notes:
- An adaptation of Fagan's "L'étourderie."
- With an added title page: Lopez and Wemyss' edition. Acting American theatre. Containing the most popular plays, as they are performed at the Philadelphia Theatre; carefully corrected and published from the prompt books; and accompanied with likenesses of distinguished performers, in characters, engraved from portraits executed for the work, by eminent artists. by M. Lopez, prompter, of the Philadelphia and Baltimore theatres.
- Frontispiece portrait from a painting by John Neagle.
- Copyright Apr. 3, 1826 by Mathias Lopez and Francis C. Wemyss.
- Includes printed cast list for 1826 production at Philadelphia Theatre.
- Local Notes:
- Bound with: Kenney, James. Sweethearts and wives. Philadelphia : Published by A.R. Poole, and Ash & Mason : P. Thompson, Wash. : H.W. Bool, Baltimore : E.M. Murden, New York, for the proprietors, and to be had of all the principal Booksellers in the United States, 1827. (Item 3 of 8)
- OCLC:
- 3978041
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