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An old offender : a comic drama / by J.R. Planché ...

Planché, J. R. (James Robinson), 1796-1880, author.; Fawcett, Owen, 1838-1904.; Arch Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Aiken's Museum (Chicago, Ill.)
1859
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Title
An old offender : a comic drama / by J.R. Planché ...
Created/published
London : Thomas Hailes Lacy, [1859?]
Description
40 p. ; 18 cm
Associated name
Planché, J. R. (James Robinson), 1796-1880, author.
Fawcett, Owen, 1838-1904.
Arch Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Aiken's Museum (Chicago, Ill.)
Series statement
French's acting edition ; no. 615]
Note
Promptbook, checked for Simon Purefoy, interleaved, heavily marked in pencil and ink.
Series
French's acting edition ; no. 615].
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
PROMPT H19
Folger-specific note
In ink on title page (covered by newspaper clipping) and on p. [3]: Owen Fawcett 1869; in pencil on p. [40]: Owen Fawcett.

Bookplate of Owen Stanley Fawcett pasted on verso of first interleaf.

Title crossed out on title page with "He's Jack Sheppard" added in ink.

Newspaper clippings for He's Jack Sheppard pasted on first interleaf, two are annotated in ink: "Arch St. Theatre Dec 20th 1859. Philad."; "Walnut St. Theatre Philad. Dec 8th 1866."

Newspaper clipping pasted to title page with Owen Fawcett as "Purejoy"; "Aiken's Museum Chicago Ill season 1870 & 1871" added in ink (clipping obscures t.p. text).

Manuscript prop list on 2nd interleaf.

Pages 36-37 pasted together.