[1854]

THE COURIER OF LYONS: Or The Attack upon the Mail: A Drama in Four Acts. Translated from the French of MM. Moreau, Siraudin and Delacourt. Thomas Hailes Lacy, Wellington Street, Strand. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 7¼). Pp. 43 + (1). Advertisements occupy p. (44). Salmon-pink paper wrappers, printed in black, uniform with the other volumes in Lacy's Acting Edition, of which this is No. 220.

1854

MASKS AND FACES: Or Before and Behind the Curtain: A Comedy in Two Acts. By Tom Taylor and Charles Reade. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. 1854. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 6¾). Pp. (viii) + 71 + (1). Mustard-yellow paper wrappers, printed in black as title-page.

1854

TWO LOVES AND A LIFE: A Drama in Four Acts. By Tom Taylor and Charles Reade. Produced at the Theatre Royal, Adelphi, April 1854. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. 1854. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 6¾). Pp. (viii) + 85 + (3). Mustard-yellow paper wrappers, printed in black as title-page.

1854

THE KING'S RIVAL: A Drama in Five Acts. By Tom Taylor and Charles Reade, authors of Masks and Faces, Two Loves and a Life etc. etc. First produced at the Theatre Royal, St. James's, October 4, 1854. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. 1854. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 6¾). Pp. (viii) + 72. Mustard-yellow paper wrappers, printed in black as title-page.

Notes—(i) The three preceding items were also issued as one volume bound in maroon cloth, blocked in gold and blind, and lettered on the spine “Dramas by Tom Taylor and Charles Reade,” and with pale yellow end-papers. The sheets used were those of the original pamphlet issue, the separate title-pages and half-titles being preserved, but the sheets being cut to measure 4⅛ × 6⅝.

(ii) In their original separate form Masks and Faces and Two Loves and a Life were published on July 1, and The King's Rival on October 17, 1854.