- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource ([6], 732 p.) : ill.
- Series Statement
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture
- Uniform Title
- People's periodical and family library.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture.
- Alternative Title
- Barber of Fleet street
- String of pearls, or, A sailor's gift : a romance of pecular interest.
- Subjects
- Note
- Preface dated London, 1850.
- Published in ninety-two parts.
- Parts are paged continuously; each consists of eight pages, except the last, which has four.
- First published in 18 weekly installments by Edward Lloyd in The people's periodical and family library, issues 7-24 (21 Nov. 1846 to 20 Mar. 1847); in a greatly expanded version as a penny-part serial in 92 parts (the first four parts issued together) from about 1847-1848; then as a single volume in 1850. The title of the first number ("The string of pearls, or, A sailor's gift : a romance of pecular interest") was revised to "The string of pearls, or, The barber of Fleet Street : a domestic romance" in the course of publication, and a new preface was added.
- Written by James Malcolm Rymer; cf. Smith, H.R. New light on Sweeney Tood (2002), cited in Mack. Previously attributed to G.A. Macfarren and Thomas P. Prest; also to Edward P. Hingston and to Albert Richard Smith.
- Illustrated with 89 unsigned wood engravings, one on the first page of each part, except for nos. 1-4, the only numbers issued together, which have only one engraving. Some illustrations are by J. Reading; cf. Mack.
- Publisher's advertisements printed vertically in the inner margins of individual numbers.
- Two colums to the page.
- Reproduction of the original from the British Library.
- OCLC
- Author
Rymer, James Malcolm, approximately 1814-1884.
- Title
The string of pearls, or, The barber of Fleet street [electronic resource] : a domestic romance.
- Imprint
London : E. Lloyd, 1850.
- Series
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture.
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- Added Author
Macfarren, G. A. (George Alexander), 1813-1887.
Prest, Thomas Peckett.
Hingston, Edward P. (Edward Peron), approximately 1823-1876.
Smith, Albert, 1816-1860.
- Added Title
People's periodical and family library.
String of pearls, or, A sailor's gift : a romance of pecular interest.