02. Barbara. A Play in One Act

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1. **Barbara. Play in One Act. London, Samuel French, [1886].
   
   

   

   

   
   Unsigned. 112. Pp. 1 2-24. (French’s Acting Edition, no. 1875).
   Contents: 1 title-page; 2 BARBARA. / Produced at the Globe Theatre, London, 19th June, 1886. [then lists characters, scene, time and dress requirements]; 3 4-24 text.
   Errors in text: p. 9, 7th line from bottom: ‘Talk about the weat her.’; p. 10, 2nd & 3rd lines from bottom: ‘He has got a very name indeed in the trade.’; p. 24, line 7: ‘Three huudred a year’.
   Printed on wove paper, 182 x 108mm.
   **Buff paper covers, lettered in black; inside front and back: advertisements for scenery; outside back: list of plays in French’s Acting Edition.
   Copies seen: FR, lists plays to vol. 125, no. 1875; British Library, date of accession 11 July 1887, lists plays to vol. 127, no. 1893; later impressions- FR, Bodleian Library.
2. Barbara. Play in One Act. New York, Samuel French.
   Unsigned. 112. Pp. 1 2-24.
   Lacks front cover; back cover: [within double rules] FRENCH’S MINOR DRAMA. / price 15 cents each. – Bound Volumes $1.25. / [short rule] / (lists volumes 1-40); inside back cover continues listing to volume 52, then: FRENCH’S INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHTED EDITION / OF THE WORKS OF THE BEST AUTHORS. [includes list, just issued at 25¢, from Sydney Grundy, A Pair of Spectacles (1898) to Brandon Thomas, Highland Legacy (1899)].
   Copies seen: University of Illinois Library.
3. Barbara, a Play, in One Act. Boston, W.H. Baker & Co. 22p.
   Reprinted frequently.
   Copies seen: Dartmouth College Library – title-page & first page of text.
4. Barbara. Penn Publishing Co., 1898. Paper, 15¢. (Dramatic Library no. 140). 28p.
   Reprinted frequently.
   Copies seen: College of Wooster Library – title-page & first page of text.
5. Barbara. Chicago, Drake. Paper, 15¢.
   Not seen. Listed in United States Catalog, 1902.
6. Barbara. A Play in One Act. New York, Dick & Fitzgerald.
   Copies seen: University of Pennsylvania Library – title-page & first page of text.
7. Barbara, a Play, in One Act. New York, Fitzgerald Publishing Corporation.
   Unsigned 112. Pp. 1-3 4-22 [2].
   Contents: 1 title-page; 2 production information; 3 4-22 text; [1-2] advertisements for other plays published by Fitzgerald.
   Printed on wove paper, size 184 x 120mm.
   Back cover; inside: NEW PLAYS [from That Parlor Maid, by Helen Clifford (1922) to Gorgeous Cecile, by Beulah King (1920)]; outside: advertisement for Initiation Stunts, by Lieut. Beale Cormack.
   Yellow paper cover, lettered in black; front: [within an ornamental frame] / PRICE, 15 CENTS. / BARBARA.. / [small ornament] / FITZGERALD PUBLISHING CORPORATION / SUCCESSOR TO / DICK & FITZGERALD, Publishers, / NEW YORK.
   Copies seen: University of Illinois Library.