Record ID:
314679
Accession number:
PMC 2120.2
Title:
Lionel & Clarissa : a comic opera : as performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden / by the author of Love in a village ; the musick compos'd by several eminent masters.
Published:
London : printed for the author & sold by J. Johnston near Charing Cross, in the Strand, [1768]
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Cary Fund in 2010.
Inscription/Markings:
Paste-down endpaper inscribed: "This book belonged to the late Mr Garrick & was bought by me at the sale of his books which took place in consequence of the death of Mrs. Garrick his widow who survived him 44 years - April 1823 - E.S. Foss."
Notes:
Music partly composed, partly compiled from the works of other composers, and arranged by Charles Dibdin ; words by Isaac Bickerstaffe.
Also known by title: The school for fathers.
Decorative t.p. engraved by W. Sherwin.
Provenance:
David Garrick; E.S. Foss.
Associated names:
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
Bickerstaff, Isaac, 1735-1812, librettist.
Garrick, David, 1717-1779, former owner.
Foss, E. S., former owner.
Johnston, John, publisher.
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