Manuscripts
An Exordium, [Descriptive of... The Roman Puppet Show]. Piece, 1 act
- Description
No application. Spoken C.G., Apr. 11, 1798.
MS: dated by Larpent, C.G., Apr., 1798.
J.P.C. in B.D.: An Exordium. A piece of a burlesque kind with this title in which Punch, Chrononhotonthologos, Rigdum Funidos & other characters of the same sort were exhibited, in one act was brought out at Covent Garden in April 1798, or at least it was sent to be licensed then.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 1204
- 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).
