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The beggar's opera / written by Mr. Gay ; to which is prefixed the musick to each song

John Gay

RA Collection: Book

Record number

15/1128

Author

Imprint

London: William Heinemann, 1921

Physical Description

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

Contributors

Claud Lovat Fraser, illustrator
John Drinkwater, contributor
Heinemann, William, publisher
Richard Clay and Sons Limited, printer