[De-accessioned] By permission of His Excellency, for the benefit of J. Butler and W. Bryant
Subtitle: at the Theatre, Sydney, on Saturday, July 30, 1796, will be performed Jane Shore ... : after the play, The Wapping Landlady ... : to which will be added The miraculous cure ...
Contributors: Hughes, George, fl. 1796-1800, printer; Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718; Ford, Brownlowe
Publisher: George Hughes
Published: 1796
Place of publication: Sydney, Australia
Language: eng
Subjects: Playbills; Theater
Other titles: By permission of His Excellency, for the benefit of J. Butler and W. Bryant :; [Deaccessioned] By permission of His Excellency, for the benefit of J. Butler and W. Bryant :; Wapping landlady.
Notes: This item was de-accessioned in September 2007. It was presented as a gift to Australian Prime Minister John Howard by Prime Minister Stephen Harper on 11 Sept. 2007 in Canberra, Australia, and is now in the collection of the National Library of Australia.

Small broadside playbill.

In contemporary ms. on verso of playbill in the hand of Philip Gidley King, third governor of New South Wales: 1. play acted at Pork Jackson, June 4th, 1789, The Recruiting Officer; 1. play performed at Norfolk Island, December 1793, Richard 3rd, Poor Soldier. P.G. King. To George Chalmers, Esqr.

The earliest extant Australian imprint. No other copies known.

References: Cf. Ferguson, J.A. Bib. of Australia, no. 319 & 320; West, J.W. Theatre in Australia, p. 10-11.