The Iron Chest A Play In Three Acts As Performed At The Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane Printed Under The Authority of The Managers From The Prompt-Book With Remarks by Mrs Inchbald

George Colman, The Younger

Published by Longman, Hurst et al., London, 1821

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A charming copy of this play. Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. Leatherbound volume with engraved frontispiece. George Colman (October 21, 1762 October 17, 1836), known as "the Younger," English dramatist and miscellaneous writer, was the son of George Colman "the Elder". He passed from Westminster School to Christ Church, Oxford, and King's College, University of Aberdeen, and was finally entered as a student of law at Lincoln's Inn, London. While in Aberdeen he published a poem satirizing Charles James Fox, called The Man of the People; and in 1782 he produced, at his father's playhouse in the Haymarket, his first play, The Female Dramatist, for which Smollett's Roderick Random supplied the materials. It was unanimously condemned, but Two to One (1784) was entirely successful. It was followed by Turk and no Turk (1785), a musical comedy; Inkle and Yarico (1787), an opera; Ways and Means (1788); The Iron Chest (1796), taken from William Godwin's Adventures of Caleb Williams; The Poor Gentleman (1802); John Bull, or an Englishman's Fireside (1803), his most successful piece; The Heir at Law (1808), which enriched the stage with one immortal character, "Dr Pangloss," and numerous other pieces, many of them adapted from the French In a full calf binding. There is some wear to the extremities including heavy rubbing to the front board and spine. The rear board is detached and missing, and the front outer hinge is strained. The title page is detached and present. There is a copperplate signature to the front blank endpaper. Internally, The binding is tight and firm. The pages are generally clean and bright with the occasional handling mark and odd spot. The frontispiece, title page and rear of the final page are slightly age-toned. Fair.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Iron Chest A Play In Three Acts As Performed At The Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane Printed Under The Authority of The Managers From The Prompt-Book With Remarks by Mrs Inchbald
• Publisher: Longman, Hurst et al., London
• Publication Date: 1821
• Binding: Leather
• Illustrator: None
• Condition: Fair
• Book Type: book
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