Author: GAY, John
Title: The Beggar's Opera
Description: Paris, The Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hardcover. Preface by A.P. Herbert. Illustrations by Mariette Lydis. Folio. Dark blue blind-embossed cloth with gilt lettering, rules and decorations. 121pp. Top edge gilt. Full-page lithographs. Near fine. Lacks slipcase. Attractive, tight copy of the LEC's eighth title in their eighth series. Colophon at rear notes limitation of 1500 numbered copies (this #474) signed by Lydis. Gay's 1728 ballad opera of course morphed two hundred years later into Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's "The Threepenny Opera." Printed by Count Giuseppe Govone in Lyons by the Presses of Audin & Cie with Lydis's powerful images printed by F. Mourlot. Front pastedown bears large custom bookplate of James David Zellerbach (1892-1963), American business executive and U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1957-60). NEWMAN 90. .
Keywords: Drama
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Title: The Beggar's Opera
Description: Paris, The Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hardcover. Preface by A.P. Herbert. Illustrations by Mariette Lydis. Folio. Dark blue blind-embossed cloth with gilt lettering, rules and decorations. 121pp. Top edge gilt. Full-page lithographs. Near fine. Lacks slipcase. Attractive, tight copy of the LEC's eighth title in their eighth series. Colophon at rear notes limitation of 1500 numbered copies (this #474) signed by Lydis. Gay's 1728 ballad opera of course morphed two hundred years later into Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's "The Threepenny Opera." Printed by Count Giuseppe Govone in Lyons by the Presses of Audin & Cie with Lydis's powerful images printed by F. Mourlot. Front pastedown bears large custom bookplate of James David Zellerbach (1892-1963), American business executive and U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1957-60). NEWMAN 90. .
Keywords: Drama
Price: US$ 75.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 50170
- Book number: 50170
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