8vo. 88pp, [2]. Disbound. Light spotting to foot of title.

The first edition of actress Maria Theresa Kemble's [née De Camp] (1774-1838) five-act comedy, based in part on Amelia Opie's (1769-1853) moral tale of the seduction and abandonment of a naïve young woman by an aristocratic rake, The father and daughter (1801), and partly upon French playwright Alexandrine-Sophie de Bawr's (1773-1860) comic piece in one act, La suite d'un bal masque (1813). The play debuted at Covent Garden on 12th December, 1815 with both Maria and her husband Charles Kemble (1775-1854) in starring roles.