THIRTY THOUSAND or WHO'S THE RICHEST? / a comic opera / in three acts / as performed at the / theatre Royal Covent Garden / written by T. Dibdin / author of / The jew and doctor, Birth-day, Will for the deed, Cabi- / net, English fleet, Family quarrels, Valentine / and Orson / Il Bondocani, School for prejudice / Five thousand a year, Saint David's / day, Naval pillar, Mouth of the / Nile, Horse and the widow etc / second edition

ed. London, Barker 1805; 20,8x13,3; pp. 76 atti 3

libr. Dibdin Thomas mus. [Braham John, Davy J., Reeve W.]

pers. 1. Lawyer Plainly 2. Mr. Dubious 3. Arable 4. Foresail 5. Windmill 6. Clump 7. Gangway 8. Teddy 9. Jenkins 10. Clodpole 11. Harry 12. Flip 13. Capstan 14. Cable 15. Waiter 16. Rosanna 17. Mrs. Arable 18. Henrica 19. Mrs. Notable 20. Margery — Countrymen, sailors, female peasantry int. Murray (1), Blanchard (2), Incledon (3), Braham (4), Fawcett (5), Emery (6), Munden (7), Rock (8), Harley (9), Street (10), King (11), Jefferies (12), Lewiss (13), Wilde (14), Truman (15), Storace (16), Dibdin (17), Davis (18), Mattocks (19), Whitmore (20)

oss. [R.] Iª rappr. Londra, Covent Garden, [10 dicembre] 1804; testo con prosa; nomi dei primi esecutori.  Reeve musicò una pantomima omonima (Londra, Sadler's Wells, 1808; GROVE¹). A p. 5 Advertisement, datato dicembre 1804: «The author is indebted for the incident of the will to the story bearing that name in Edgworth's popular tales [...] the author prays to urge, in mitigation of judgement, that inevitable circumstances compelled him to make many and material alterations from his original copy, which [...] certainly possessed a much stronger claim to favour in the closet, than the bagatelle now presented»; a p. 7 l'ed. avverte che dispone di una vasta raccolta di testi teatrali (tra i quali le edd. originali di Shakespeare, Jonson, Chapman, Heywood ecc.), provenienti da varie biblioteche private (elenco di nomi); a p. 76 elenco delle ultime novità teatrali. Virgolati pochi passi di dialogo e, in II 4, la seconda strofa dell'a. di Clump e la terza dell'a. di Arable.