Author: GAY, JOHN AND FRASER, CLAUD LOVAT (ILLUSTRATOR)
Title: The Beggar's Opera.
Description: London. William Heinemann, 1921, This edition was first published in September 1921, this is the new impression of December 1921. Pages i to vi are title pages etc., pages vii to xviii are an Appreciation by John Drinkwater, a Preface by Lovat Fraser, and an introduction etc. 93 pages, 8 plates in colour, numerous vignettes, head & tail-pieces in black & white. First written about 1730, this version uses the text of the 1765 edition "To which is Prefixed the Musick to each Song." 10" x 6¼". No d./w. Yellow board covers with black cloth spine, green paper panel on front with title & author. Orange-brown paper label on spine with title, author & publisher. Corners worn & bumped, bottom of spine & bottom edges scuffed, short neatly written name & date 1922 on top of front endpaper, and tiny book label of Blackwells bottom of f.e.p., o./w. near fine. Endpapers slightly, faintly browned. A row of tiny holes on black cloth spine, along back hinge on the outside, possibly from silverfish or moths? Yellow boards, green label, brown label are all still bright. 1921

Keywords: Lovat Fraser John Gay The Beggar's Opera


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