(ii) The story upon which this play is based appeared as the Extra Christmas Number to “All the Year Round” for 1867 (see above, The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, 1890, note).
(iii) Collectors will be interested to note, as an item in Collinsiana, an American dramatic version of No Thoroughfare which appeared as No. 348 in French's Library of Standard Drama. This version is entitled:
Identity or No Thoroughfare by Louis Lequel. Dramatized from the Christmas Story of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. New York: Samuel French, Publisher, 122 Nassau Street.
1 vol. (4½ × 7½). Pp. 44. Yellow paper wrappers, printed in black.
The booklet is undated, save for the statement that the play was entered in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York in 1867. The wrapper bears French's London as well as his New York imprint.
1869
BLACK AND WHITE: A Love Story in Three Acts. By Wilkie Collins and Charles Fletcher. London: Printed by C. Whiting, Beaufort House, Strand. 1869. 1 vol. Slim Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7½). Pp. 56. White paper wrappers, the first page of which serves as title and is printed as above.
1870
NO NAME: A Drama in Four Acts. (Altered from the novel for performance on the stage.) By Wilkie Collins. London: Published by the author, 90 Gloucester Place, Portman Square. 1870. 1 vol. Sm. Cr. 8vo (4½ × 7¼). Pp. 160, of which pp. (1) to (4) are unnumbered. The rest of the book, being printed on one side of the paper only, is paged (5) to 82. Buff paper wrappers, printed in black.
Note—This is a different text from that published in 1863.