THE GOLDEN AGE OF MELODRAMA: TWELVE 19TH CENTURY MELODRAMAS, Abridged and Introduced by Michael Kilgarriff. London: Wolfe Publishing Limited, [1974]. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-499 [500: blank], illustrations, boards. First edition. Includes "The Vampire, or The Bride of the Isles" by J. R. Planché, a vampire play (set in Scotland!) first performed 9 August 1820 at the English Opera House. Kilgarriff's edition of popular English melodramas is valuable for its critical apparatus. Carter, The Vampire in Literature (1989), p. 121. Corners a bit soft, a bright very good or better copy in clean, bright very good or better dust jacket. Nice copies of this book are elusive. (#156001).
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