" Rent Day," " The Coalition," " The Goose and Gridiron," The Murder," " The Mélange," " The Oddities " (part i.), The Patriots Planet-Struck," " The Professional Volunteers."
" The Quizzes," " The Sphinx," " The Wags " (part i. in duplicate), " Tom Wilkins," " The Whim of the Moment," " Valentine's Day," " The General Election," " The Oddities."
Libretti of operas and other dramatic pieces. Volume 1.
Scope & Content:
1. 'Conceit in a Cottage': a Dramatic Pastoral in 2 Acts. ' Written in early youth.' Characters: Silvius, Philander, Thyrsis, Bromia, Flavilla, etc. f. 2. 2. 'The suspicious Rustic': a Dramatic Pastoral in 2 Acts. 'Written in early life.' Characters: Corin, Leander, Dorilas, Narcissa, Cleora. ...
Libretti of operas and other dramatic pieces. Volume 2.
Scope & Content:
1. 'The Cake-house': Ballad Farce in 2 Acts; afterwards [1800] converted into a Table Entertainment (see f. 30). Characters: Sandwich, Belfield, Grouse, Trail, Dr. Drylips, Neddy, Nat, Cocks, Majorum, Caleb, Lady Quinze, Miss Chance, Mrs. Volatile, etc. ff. 1-29, 86-92b. 2. 'The Cottage': Comic ...
Libretti of operas and other dramatic pieces. Volume 3.
Scope & Content:
1. 'The Villain': Comic Opera in 3 Acts (cf. Add MS 30964, no. 2). Characters: Compass, O'Liffy, Staysail, Gig, Grey, French-general, Count Fourbe, Murdoch, Nanny, Fanny, Judy, Patty, etc. ff. 1-25. 2. 'Wife and no Wife,' or 'The Oddities': Comic Opera in 3 Acts. Different from the Table entertai...
Libretti of operas and other dramatic pieces. Volume 4.
Scope & Content:
1. 'Mistake upon Mistake,' or 'Hey for Matrimony': Ballad Farce in 2 Acts. Characters: Sir Harry Hammercloth, Mr. Ego, Capt. Countersign, Lucius O'Rourke, Trap, Natty, Scapegrace, Augusta, Rattlecap, Priscilla, Judy, etc. f. 1. 2. 'Harvest home,' or 'The Brink of a precipice' [1787]. Character...
Fragments of songs, entertainments, etc., with three leaves of his novel, "Hannah Hewitt; or, The Female Crusoe."
Scope & Content:
Fragments of songs, entertainments, etc., with three leaves of his novel, "Hannah Hewitt; or, The Female Crusoe." In box. Includes: Glees for 3 voices, in score. [From 'Rent-Day,' by Charles Dibdin.] 1. 'Here 's a health to good Sir Thomas'; with a bass. f. 30. 2. 'The Ploughman makes the furro...
(ff. 208). EIGHTEEN lectures on the Art of Music, by C. Dibdin, followed at f. 191 by notes and memoranda for his autobiography. Octavo. Music: Lectures on music, by C. Dibdin: 18th cent.