Excerpt from Twelve Precisely! Or a Night at Dover: An Interlude, in One Act Land. This way, ma'am, this way; you shall have 'a most delightful apartment-overlooking the water, ma'am; and on a clear day, you may almost see Paris, ma'am, in the distance! Peg. You seem able to stretch a pretty long distance beyond the mark, landlord. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Twelve Precisely! Or, a Night at Dover: An Interlude in One Act; As Performed at the Olympic Theatre, Strand, Monday, Jan; 1, 1821 Land. This way, ma'am, this way; you shall have a most delightful apartment-overlooking the water, ma'am; and on a clear day, you may almost see Paris, ma'am, in the distance! Peg. You seem able to stretch a pretty long distance beyond the mark, landlord. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.