20. Deacon Brodie | or the Double Life | a Melodrama | In Five Acts and
| Eight Tableaux. | By W. E. Henley | and R. L. Stevenson. | London:
William Heinemann. | MDCCCXCVII.
Square 16mo, pp. viii.+182.
This play, of which Stevenson had prepared various drafts--the earliest
in 1864--was first privately printed in 1880. A revised edition was
printed “For Private Circulation Only” in 1888. The play was first
published in “Three Plays by W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson,” 1892;
afterwards in “Four Plays,” 1896, and separately, as above, in 1897, as
volume i. of “The Plays of W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson.”
The play was first produced at Pullan’s Theatre of Varieties, Bradford,
on 28th December, 1882. The subsequent occasions on which it was
performed were as follows:--At Her Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen, in
March, 1883; at the Prince’s Theatre, London, on 2nd July, 1884; at
Montreal, on 26th September, 1887; followed by a series of
representations at Quebec, Toronto, Boston Philadelphia and other
cities; and at the Star Theatre, New York, on 1st December, 1887. The
cast of the play as performed in London and at Montreal is given in
“Three Plays,” 1892, and in subsequent editions.
21. Romantic | Edinburgh | By | John Geddie | London | Sands & Company |
12 Burleigh Street, Strand, W.C. | 1900. Crown 8vo.
References--pp. 22, 52, 69, 70, 106, 161.
22. Deacon Brodie | or | Behind The Mask | By Dick Donovan,| Author of
“A Detective’s Triumphs” [etc.] | [Device.] | London| Chatto & Windus |
1901 | (Rights of Translation reserved).
Crown octavo, pp. vi. + 258.
A novel founded upon the career of Deacon Brodie, and, so far as
ascertained, his only appearance in fiction.
23. Edinburgh | and its Story | By | Oliphant Smeaton | [Device.] |
Illustrated by | Herbert Railton | and J. Ayton | Symington | 1904 |
London: J. M. Dent & Co. | New York: The Macmillan Co. 4to.
References--pp. 171, 224.
Reports of and comments upon the trial appeared in the three
contemporary Edinburgh newspapers, viz., _The Caledonian Mercury_, _The
Edinburgh Advertiser_, and _The Edinburgh Evening Courant_.
APPENDIX IV.
THE BRODIE FAMILY BIBLE.
THIS unique volume was recently acquired in the course of business by
Mr. Richard Cameron, bookseller, Edinburgh. On finding it to be the
family Bible of Convener Francis Brodie, father of the notorious Deacon
Brodie, Mr. Cameron communicated his discovery to the Town Council, by
whom it was purchased for the city on 28th June, 1904, and placed in the
Edinburgh Municipal Museum, where it now finds a fitting resting-place
among many other interesting memorials of the old burghal life.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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