Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Jul 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1375357069 ISBN 13: 9781375357067
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the remarkable library of Victor Amadeus, whose Castle Corvey collection was one of the most spectacular discoveries of the late 1970s. The Corvey Collection comprises one of the most important collections of Romantic era writing in existence anywhere -- including fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry, and more -- with a focus on especially difficult-to-find works by lesser-known, historically neglected writers.
Verlag: British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011
ISBN 10: 1241066833 ISBN 13: 9781241066833
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New.
Verlag: British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011
ISBN 10: 1241063354 ISBN 13: 9781241063351
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New.
Verlag: British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011
ISBN 10: 1241021910 ISBN 13: 9781241021917
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Jul 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1375357077 ISBN 13: 9781375357074
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the remarkable library of Victor Amadeus, whose Castle Corvey collection was one of the most spectacular discoveries of the late 1970s. The Corvey Collection comprises one of the most important collections of Romantic era writing in existence anywhere -- including fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry, and more -- with a focus on especially difficult-to-find works by lesser-known, historically neglected writers.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1817
Anbieter: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
?Seventh Edition? Small 4to. [8], 82 pp. Contemporary half calf with marbled boards, flat spine with six panels outlined in gilt, second panel lettered in gilt. London, John Murray. 1819. [bound with:] SHEIL (Richard). Evadne; or, the Statue: A Tragedy in Five Acts: as Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden. Small 4to. [2, half title], vi, [4], 86, [2] pp. London, Murray. ?Maturin wrote his play [Bertram] in 1814, inspired by Richard Lalor Sheil's Adelaide, which had enjoyed a great success at the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin. Worried that a Dublin production would injure his clerical reputation, Maturin turned to [Walter] Scott for advice. Scott judiciously excised a scene in which the devil appears bodily on stage, and, after first trying John Kemble, sent the play to Byron, then on the newly formed management committee for Drury Lane. Byron was entranced by the text, and gave it to George Lamb, who also could not put it down. The play opened on 9 May 1816, and was a sensation, running to over forty performances. Murray published the amended version of the play, and even at the exorbitant price of 4s. 6d. it went through at least seven editions within the year. Maturin received £350 from Murray, and £500 for his share of the box office. He visited London for a week in late May 1816 after the committee invited him to the capital to be lionized, but was intensely disappointed by his reception. It was Maturin's only trip outside Ireland.? (ODNB). A good copy, rubbed, especially to boards and corners, joints a little cracked.