The contrivances
Subtitle: a ballad opera
By: by Harry Carey
Publisher: publisher not identified
Published: 1729
Place of publication: London?
Language: eng
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Other titles: Contrivance
Work titles: Contrivances
Notes: Libretto and music by Henry Carey; first performed in London at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 16 August 1729. See Loewenberg.

"Dramatis personæ"--Page 1; does not include performers.

Caption title.

Date and place of publication inferred from date and place of first performance.

Loewenberg, Alfred.^^Annals of opera, column 164

From the collection of John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward.

Former owner's label on front cover: H.M. Dowding.

Includes publisher's advertisements at end.

Bound in quarter brown marbled paper and tan paper covers with white manuscript title label mounted on front cover ("The contrivance"); in prefab, 26 cm.