GEORGE COLMAN,
The Younger

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BENTLEY'S
MISCELLANY

VOL. I

LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY,

NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
1837.[Pg ii]

LONDON:
PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,

Dormet Street, Fleet Street.

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EDITOR'S ADDRESS

ON THE COMPLETION OF THE
FIRST VOLUME.

At the end of a theatrical season it is customaryfor the manager to step forward, and, in as few words asmay be, to say how very much obliged he feels for allpast favours, and how very ready he is to incur fresh obligations.

With a degree of candour which few managers woulddisplay, we cheerfully confess that we have been fairlyinundated with orders during our six months' campaign;but so liberal are we, notwithstanding, that we placemany of the very first authors of the day on our freelist, and invite them to write for our establishment justas much paper as they think proper.

We have produced a great variety of novelties,some of which we humbly hope may become stock pieces, andall of which we may venture to say have been must successful;and, although we are not subject to the controlof a licenser, we have eschewed everything political,personal, or ill-natured, with perhaps as much care aswe could possibly have shown, even had we been underthe watchful eye of the Lord Chamberlain himself.

We shall open our Second Volume, ladies andgentlemen, on the first day of July, One thousand eight hundred[Pg iv]and thirty-seven, when we shall have the pleasureof submitting a great variety of entirely new pieces foryour judgment and approval. The company will benumerous, first-rate, and complete. The scenery willcontinue to be supplied by the creative pencil of Mr.George Cruikshank; the whole of the extensive andbeautiful machinery will be, as heretofore, under theimmediate superintendence of Mr. Samuel Bentley, ofDorset-street, Fleet-street; and Mr. Richard Bentley, ofNew Burlington-street, has kindly consented to presideover the Treasury department, where he has alreadyconducted himself with uncommon ability.

The stage management will again be confided,ladies and gentlemen, to the humble individual with the shortname, who has now the honour to address you, and whohopes, for very many years to come, to appear before youin the same capacity. Permit him to add in soberseriousness, that it has been the constant and unremittingendeavour of himself and the proprietor to renderthis undertaking worthy of your patronage. That theyhave not altogether failed in their attempt, its splendidsuccess sufficiently demonstrates; that they have no intentionof relaxing in their efforts, its future Volumeswe trust will abundantly testify.

"BOZ."

 London,
June, 1837.

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CONTENTS OF
THE FIRST VOLUME.

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