[Guild of Literature & Art.] [Not So Bad As We Seem.] Playbill. On Friday evening, February 13th, 1852, the amateur company of The Guild of Literature & Art,. will have the honor of performing, for the thirteenth time, a new comedy, in five acts, by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton,. called Not So Bad As We Seem: or, Many Sides to a Character. . The performance to conclude with (for the tenth time) an original farce, in one act, by Mr. Charles Dickens and Mr. Mark Lemon, entitled Mr. Nightingale's Diary. . The whole produced under the direction of Mr. Charles Dickens.

(DICKENS, Charles) LIVERPOOL. Philharmonic Hall.

Published by W. Ellis & Co. 1852, 1852

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Single sheet folio playbill, printed in red & black; tiny tear at head, neatly repaired from behind. 25 x 50cm. For this performance, the playbill was amended to show Mr. [Walter] Lacy 'of the London Theatres' in the part of Hardman, owing to the 'unavoidable absence of Mr. John Forster'. The performance was very well received in Liverpool; Dickens reported back to Bulwer Lytton, in a letter dated February 15th, 'I can scarcely see to write - but I cannot go to bed without telling you what a triumph we have had'. (Pilgrim Letters, vol. 6, p.599.).

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• Title: [Guild of Literature & Art.] [Not So Bad As We Seem.] Playbill. On Friday evening, February 13th, 1852, the amateur company of The Guild of Literature & Art,. will have the honor of performing, for the thirteenth time, a new comedy, in five acts, by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton,. called Not So Bad As We Seem: or, Many Sides to a Character. . The performance to conclude with (for the tenth time) an original farce, in one act, by Mr. Charles Dickens and Mr. Mark Lemon, entitled Mr. Nightingale's ...
• Publisher: W. Ellis & Co. 1852
• Publication Date: 1852