The agreeable surprise
Subtitle: a comic opera, in two acts ... Correctly given, as performed at the New-York Theatre
By: by John O'Keeffe, Esq
Series: Living plays
Publisher: Published by Charles Wiley, No. 3 Wall-street; and H.C. Carey & I. Lea and McCarty & Davis, Philadelphia; and Saml. H. Parker, Boston
Published: 1824
Place of publication: New-York; Philadelphia; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 39
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Other titles: Secret enlarged.
Notes: Cast list on unnumbered page 4; includes performers.

Title vignette.

The Agreeable Surprise, or The Secret Enlarged, music by Samuel Arnold, first performed in London at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket, 4 September 1781. See Grove Music Online.

Ownership signature in ink on unnumbered page 3, caption, and unnumbered page 40, etc.: Joseph Sefton.

Ownership inscription in ink on front cover: 44. Agreeable Surprise, 1870? Ch.H. Saunders; in ink at head of caption, Chs. Henry Saunders, 1870?

Ownership stamp in purple ink on front flyleaf: John Williams.

Cast list annotated in ink in an unidentified hand. Decorative manuscript "F" in ink on caption.

No. 3 in a volume of three works by O'Keefe.

Bound in gray lined stiffened paper wrappers; in prefab, 20 cm.