Sylvana: an opera, . in three acts. (The music by Carl Maria von Weber,) adapted to the English stage, by C.A. Somerset ... Printed from the acting copy, with remarks, biographical and critical, by D.-G. ... As now performed at the metropolitan minor theatres. Embellished with a portrait of Miss Graddon, in the character of Count Rudolph. Engraved on steel by Mr. Woolnoth, from an original drawing by Mr. Wageman.
Charles A. Somerset
Category
Books
Date
1830
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ormesby Hall, Redcar and Cleveland
NT 3138286
Summary
Bibliographic description
44p. . ill.. . 12mo.. With manuscript list of plays contained in volume. Bound with: Fitzball, The floating beacon; Fitz-Ball, The innkeeper of Abbeville; Dibdin, The banks of the Hudson; Jerrold, The devil's ducat; Milner, Mazeppa; Jerrold, The mutiny at the Nore; Fitz-ball, Peveril of the Peak; Dibdin, Paul Jones.. Provenance: Inscribed: "J.N. Susanna Holdsworth July, 1849".. Binding: Diced calf; gilt-tooled on spine; spine labels gilt-lettered: British Stage; marbled endpapers and edges; uniform with five other volumes.
Makers and roles
Charles A. Somerset George Daniel (1789 - Stoke Newington 1864) Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (1786 - 1826)