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[BOOTH, JOHN WILKES]. MORTON, JOHN MADDISON. Lend Me Five Shillings. A Farce, In One Act...With the Stage Business, Cast of Characters, Costumes, Relative Positions, etc., New York: William Taylor n.d. [c.1855-1860?]. 32pp., 8vo, 190 x 118 mm. (7½ x 4¾ in.), original publisher's printed orange wrappers, back cover very slightly torn, light dampstain to upper portions of text, cloth chemise and quarter morocco gilt-lettered protective slipcase. JOHN WILKES BOOTH'S COPY, with ink signature at top of front cover: "John W. Booth Arch St., June 1858." Printed bookplate of Foreman M. Lebold.
A promptbook of a farce based on a French model, first produced at the Haymarket Theatre in London in 1846, where "it was received with much laughter and applause." It was "introduced upon the American boards soon after its appearance in London...It has since been frequently performed at nearly all our principal theatres" (from the Introduction).
A promptbook of a farce based on a French model, first produced at the Haymarket Theatre in London in 1846, where "it was received with much laughter and applause." It was "introduced upon the American boards soon after its appearance in London...It has since been frequently performed at nearly all our principal theatres" (from the Introduction).