Manuscripts
The King's Bench. Opera, 3 acts. Joseph George Holman
- Description
No application. Prod. (as Abroad and at Home) C.G., Nov. 19, 1796.
MS: dated, by Larpent, C.G., Nov. 14. Comp. Abroad and at Home, 2d ed., 1796 (K-D 354): numerous differences.
J.P.C. in B.D.: Larpent enters the title in his account book as 'The Kings Bench or abroad & at home' and says nothing of any disapprobation. In the copy of the play sent to him it stood only the Kings Bench.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 1143
- 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).
