Dibdin Charles Elder (7 results)

Title stained with tear not affecting text. Disbound. ESTC T36031.

Half title; ink sum and scrwls on last leaf. Disbound. ESTC T92915. An abridgement of The Islanders, set on an Island in America.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 174pp. 12mo, recent dark green patterned cloth, paper label. Very nice copy, uncut, with terminal advertisement leaf. Published pseudonymously. BL, Bodley and Cambridge only in COPAC.

Mark at tail of pp9-10. Disbound. Ownership inscr. of A. Heywood. ESTC T221813; BL and NLS only in UK. Dibdin signs the preface.

A single sheet folio broadside verse, set in two stanzas, with a very large woodcut illustration depicting a couple and young child. Some light browning & sl. foxing. Unrecorded in ESTC or the BM Print Collection. The McMaster University collection of Georgian Songs records The Tear of Sensibility. Written, composed and sung by Mr. Dibdin in his new Entertainment called Castles in the Air (When to man the distinguishing form). Printed and sold by the author [1793]. 4pp. The complete work was published in folio, price 1s, and in the majority of cases there are arrangements for two flutes. ESTC records single copies (BL) of 3 advertisement sheets for the 'Entertainment' showing that the first performance took place on October 14th 1793, 'the whole is written and composed, and will be spoken, sung, and accompanied by Mr. Dibdin, Under whose Directions several striking and novel effects are introduced into his celebrated Instrument, made by Mr. Hancock. Colonnade and Bowers 5s. Area 3s. Gallery 2s. The Doors will be opened at 7 O'Clock, and the Performance begin at eight'. It continues, 'Nappy, the Tear of Sensibility, The Token, The Whistling Ploughman, and Beauty's Donation, or British Bounty are this Day published; the Hare Hunt will be published on Monday next, and some one of the Songs on every Monday following'. This example was issued a few weeks later on New Year's Day 1794 and was printed whilst Dibdin's performances were still continuing, having reached the 38th night on January 7th.

Letterpress text, engr. music of 99 songs. Imperceptibly rebacked in half red morocco; sl. staining to following e.p. Booklabel of Barwick Baker, Hardwicke Court. A handsome edition. Composer, musician, dramatist, novelist, singer and actor, Charles Dibdin, 1745-1814, is best known for composing 'Tom Bowling', which today often features at the Last Night of the Proms. It is one of the songs included in this volume, published as part of a campaign to raise a subscription for a monument to be erected in Dibdin's honour. Other songs included in this volume, all of which are accompanied by the musical score, include: Duncan and Victory, The Shipwreck, Nothing Like Grog, Blow High Blow Low, The Blind Sailor, &c.

[4], iv, 443, [1]pp., plates, Initial blank, subscribers' list (557), engraved music to seven songs. 4to. Contemp. half calf, faded but readable printed paper label on front board for 'Bull's Public Library', red spine label; careful repairs. Manuscript inscription on leading pastedown: 'Bull's Library, Bath'; contemp. inscription on leading blank: 'G. Harries, Tregwynt' together with a sl. later pencil signature of J. Herries. A nice copy. The label on the front reads: ' 'This book belongs to Bull's Public Library, where Subscribers are accommodated.'. Bull's Library was the successor to Leake's, established by James Leake in the early 18th century and one of the first such libraries in Bath. Robert Southey, writing of his youthful days, wrote: 'Bull's circulating library was then to me what the Bodleian would be now'. It was also at Bull's (and Frederick's - another Bath library) that Lydia Languish's maid (in Sheridan's play The Rivals) sought to find popular novels to read. (Circulating Libraries in Eighteenth Century Bath, V. J. Kite.) The Harries family, to whom this volume also belonged, had lived at Tregwynt Mansion, Pembrokeshire, since the 17th century. George Harries died in 1789 and it seems likely that the book was originally bought by the Harries family before being sold (or given) to the library after his death. Sadly, this would mean that the volume was not present for the French invasion of 1797 which took place just a few miles from Tregwynt Mansion. On the night of the French landing (which failed as quickly as it had begun) the leader of the local militia was dining with Eliza Harries (George's widow) at Tregwynt.