Win and Wear Her; or, Race for a Wife! Comic burletta, 3 acts. H. C. Williams or Henry W. Challis (?)

Description

No application. Prod. (as A Race for a Wife; or, Win Her and Wear Her) Olympic, Nov. 21, 1823.

MS: dated, by Larpent, Olympic, Nov. 4; previous title, A Race for a Wife! or The Man of Two Masters!, deleted; title-page gives author as H. C. Williams. Comp. H. W. Challis' A Race for a Wife, etc., n.d. (K-D 535): a few slight differences; printed in two acts.

See LA 2169.

Type

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Production date

1737-1824.

Call number

LA 2385

Creator

Larpent, John (1741-1824)(Opens in new tab)

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).

Associated organization

Great Britain.

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Win and Wear Her; or, Race for a Wife! Comic burletta, 3 acts. H. C. Williams or Henry W. Challis (?)

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