The maid of the mill
Subtitle: a comic opera : as it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden
By: the music compiled, and the words written by the author of Love in a village
Contributors: Arnold, Samuel, 1740-1802, composer; Newbery, John, 1713-1767, bookseller; Baldwin, R. (Robert), 1737-1810, bookseller; Caslon, Thomas, -1783, bookseller; Nicoll, William (Bookseller); Lowndes, Thomas, 1719-1784, bookseller; Becket, Thomas, bookseller; Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761; Covent Garden Theatre; John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Edition: The fifth edition.
Publisher: Printed for J. Newbery, R. Baldwin, T. Caslon, W. Griffin, W. Nicoll, T. Lownds, and T. Becket
Published: 1765
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Work titles: Maid of the mill
Notes: Libretto for a pasticcio in 3 acts; text by I. Bickerstaff, based on S. Richardson's Pamela; music by S. Arnold (4 numbers) and possibly 20 other composers. See Oxford music online/Grove music online (WWW site, 16 March 2009) and O.G.T. Sonneck, Catalogue of opera librettos printed before 1800.

First performed at Covent Garden, London, 31 January 1765.

Signatures: pi² A-K⁴ L².

"Dramatis personæ" with named cast: p. [2] (4th group).

Publisher's advertisement for the 3rd ed. of Thomas and Sally and the 11th ed. of Love in a village on the last page.

ESTC, T38860