Songs, duets, chorusses, &c. &c. serious and comic, as sung in The New Broad Comic Extravaganza Entertainment, in two acts, 'yclept Giovanni in London; or, the libertine reclaimed. Comprising all the subsequent adventures of that celebrated character, as performed at The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

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16pp. With a hand-coloured engraved frontispiece depicting 'Madame Vestris as Don Giovanni' by caricaturist and painter Isaac Robert Cruikshank (1764-1811). [Bound after:] [STUART, James]. The trial of james stuart, esq. younger of dunearn, before the High Court of Justiciary, at edinburgh, on monday, june 10. 1822. Edinburgh. Printed by Archibald Constable and Co., 1822. First edition. [4], 186, [2], 20pp. [And:] [A defective copy of the first volume of Knapp and Baldwin's Newgate calendar.] [And:] A full report of the trial, on monday, january 17th, 1825, albion cox, Esq. versus edmund kean, Esq. Of the Theatre-Royal, Drury Lane, for criminal conversations with the plaintiff's wife. London. Printed & Published by Edward Duncombe, [1825]. First edition. 16pp. Without engraved portrait plate. [Bound before:] [Two issues (April, 1803 and December, 1804) of The Scots Magazine]. 8vo. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Extremities worn, joints split. Leaves browned and spotted. An early edition of playwright and theatre manager William Thomas Moncrieff's (1794-1857) libretto for his risquà burlesque Giovanni in London (1817); a notable succà s de scandale following the performance at Drury Lane in 1820 in which the role of the titular protagonist was turned into a breeches part, launching the career of actress Lucia Elisabeth Vestris [nà e Barolozzi] (1797-1856). OCLC and COPAC together record copies of this edition, the first to include the Cruikshank frontispiece, at eight locations (Arizona, BL, Cambridge, Harvard, Loyola, NLI, NYPL, Oxford). N° de ref. del artículo AQ28234

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