A Book of Burlesque: Sketches of English Stage Travestie and Parody

THE WHITEFRIARS LIBRARY OF WIT AND HUMOUR .
Edited by W. H. DAVENPORT ADAMS.
Quid verum atque decens curo et rogo, et omnis in hoc sum.
Horace.
We shall spare no pains to make instruction agreeable to our readers and their diversion useful. For which reasons we shall endeavour to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality, that our readers may, if possible, both ways find their account in the speculation of the day.
Addison (adapted).
OF ENGLISH STAGE TRAVESTIE AND PARODY
BY WILLIAM DAVENPORT ADAMS Author of A Dictionary of English Literature, Rambles in Book-Land etc., etc.
WITH PORTRAITS OF F. C. BURNAND, W. S. GILBERT, AND G. R. SIMS
LONDON HENRY AND CO., BOUVERIE STREET, E.C. 1891
The Whitefriars Library of Wit and Humour.
Vol. I.