Manuscripts
The Magpiè. Melodramatic entertainment, 3 acts. Thomas John Dibdin, from L. C. Caigniez, La pie voleuse
- Description
No application; title-page endorsed Sept. 3, 1815, by Alexander Rae and T. J. Dibdin, D.L. Prod. Sept. 12, 1815.
MS: various titles, all erased except The Magpie. Comp. 1820 (K-D 507): first two acts differ slightly; last act in MS contains a number of scenes not printed.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 1878
- Provenance
- Purchased with the Ellesmere collection from John Francis Granville Scroop Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere, through the agency of George D. Smith and Sotheby's of London, 1917. The collection was purchased by John Payne Collier. In 1853, he sold it to Francis Egerton, Viscount Brackley and 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800-1857).
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