Richard CŒur de Lion
Subtitle: by General Burgoyne
Contributors: Grétry, André Ernest Modeste, 1741-1813; Linley; Sedaine, 1719-1797
Series: Dicks' standard plays -- no 98.
Publisher: J. Dicks, 313, Strand; All booksellers
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Librettos; Operas
Work titles: Richard CŒur de Lion. Libretto. English
Notes: U.S. RISM Libretto Project.

Each cover presumably filmed twice; cover title; price on front cover : one penny; "Gretry" written by hand in top margin; the attribution "General Burgoyne" on front cover amended by hand to read: General John Burgoyne; advertisements--inside of front cover; illustration of Richard's line "What sounds! Heavens! The very strain" from act 2, sc. 1--front cover and p.51; advertisements and publisher's list--p. [1]-[2] at end and on both sides of back cover.

"Richard CŒur de Lion : an historical romance, in three acts / altered from the French of M. Sedaine by General Burgoyne"--p. 51.

Performed at Covent Garden in 1786 in a translation by J. Bugoyne, with music adapted by Linley--Loewenberg

Singers' names not given.