v, 4, vii, xiv, 93 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour), music ; 26 cm.
General Note
The printer is named on the verso of page 93: `Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, Bungay, Suffolk.’
The 8 plates, including the frontispiece, are in full page colour with captioned tissue guard sheets.
`Note - The text here given is taken from the edition of 1765. The scenes have been re-numbered in the modern method denoting actual changes of place or intervals of time.’ [verso of title page]
Contents
Claud Lovat Fraser / John Drinkwater -- The Beggar’s Opera: note on the scene and costumes at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith / C. Lovat Fraser -- The Beggar’s Opera
Binding Note
Original quarter black cloth backed spine and glazed yellow paper covered boards with paper title labels to cover and spine.
Subject
Illustrated books
18th-century plays
Ballad operas Librettos