Calamity at Richmond : being a narrative of the affecting circumstances attending the awful conflagration of the theatre, in the city of Richmond, on the night of Thursday, the 26th of December, 1811. : By which, more than seventy of its valuable citizens suddenly lost their lives, and many others were greatly injured and maimed. : Collected from various letters, publications, and official reports, and accompanied with a preface, containing appropriate relections, calculated to awaken the attention of the public, to the frequency of the destruction of theatrical edifices.

Format:

Book

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 25013.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Richmond Theater (Richmond, Va.)--Fire, 1811.

Richmond Theater (Richmond, Va.).

Theaters--Fires and fire prevention.

Theaters.

Fires--Virginia--Richmond.

Fires.

Fire prevention--Virginia--Richmond.

Fire prevention.

Virginia--Richmond.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 14-56 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, : Published and sold by John F. Watson, south-west corner of Third and Chesnut-Streets., 1812. (Price 25 cents.)

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Notes:

Frontispiece wood-engraving depicts the theater in flames.

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