The school for fathers, or, Lionel & Clarissa
Subtitle: a comic opera
By: by Isaac Bickerstaff ; adapted for theatrical representation, as performed at the Theatres-Royal Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden ; regulated from the prompt-book, by permission of the managers
Contributors: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814; Galuppi, Baldassare, 1706-1785; Vento, Mattia, 1735-1776; Scolari, Giuseppe, 1720-1769; Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778; Ciampi, Francesco, approximately 1690-approximately 1764; Burney, Edward Francis, 1760-1848, artist; De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832, artist; Corner, John, active 1788-1825, engraver; Delattre, Jean Marie, approximately 1742-approximately 1840, engraver; Bell, John, 1745-1831, bookseller; Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England); Covent Garden Theatre; John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: Printed for the proprietors, under the direction of John Bell, British-Library, Strand, bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
Published: 1791
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Other titles: Lionel & Clarissa; Lionel and Clarissa
Notes: Libretto for a pasticcio opera in 3 acts; without the music by Charles Dibdin and others; first performed in London at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1789. See Grove music online.

"Dramatis personæ"--Page 8; includes performers from productions at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and Covent Garden Theatre.

"A table of the songs with the names of the several composers"--Page 107; lists Dibdin, Gallupi, Vento, Scolari, Arne and Ciampi.

Includes engraved frontispiece portrait of Mr. Parsons in role of Colonel Oldboy (signed De Wilde del., Corner sculp.); includes engraved title page depicting a scene from the opera (signed E.F. Burney delt., Delattre sculpt.).

Includes head- and tail-pieces.

ESTC, N24267

Sonneck, Oscar George Theodore.  Catalogue of opera librettos printed before 1800, page 687