A sketch of Begone dull care, or, How will it end
Subtitle: a comedy in five acts: as it is performed at Covent Garden Theatre
Publisher: Printed for J. Scales, No. 26, Green Walk, Holland Street, Blackfriar's Road: sold by Champante and Co. Aldgate; Hughes, Ludgate Hill; T. Evans, Long Lane; and all other booksellers
Published: 1808
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Pictorial works
Other titles: How will it end
Work titles: Begone dull care
Notes: A prose synopsis of the play.

At head of title: Scales's edition.

"Price sixpence".

"Burton, Printer, 82, Fetter Lane."

Hand-colored engraved frontispiece depicting Mr. Lewis and Miss Smith as Modern and Selina, unsigned.

Cast list in preliminaries, with performers; includes Mr. Lewis as Captain Modern, Mr. C. Kemble as Algernon St. Aubyn, and Miss Smith as Selina.

Attributed to Reynolds, with William Thomas Lewis mentioned in connection with Covent Garden Theatre, in the role of Modern, opening on February 9, 1808. See DNB, 1885-1900, volume 33, entry for Lewis written by John Joseph Knight, retrieved via wikisource.org.

From the bequest of Evert Jansen Wendell, 1918.

Shows residual signs of stabbing.

Bound in printed blue-gray paper wrappers; in brown cloth case.