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

Accession number
PML 143181
Published
New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, [1921]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Music (unaccompanied melodies) compiled and arranged by J. Pepusch.
"Note.--The text here given is taken from the edition of 1765. The scenes have been re-numbered in the modern method denoting changes of place or intervals of time."--T.p. verso.
"Note on the scene and costumes at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith ... C. Lovat Fraser. Chelsea, February 1921."-- p. xi-xiii.
"Claud Lovat Fraser an appreciation ... John Drinkwater. London, Midsummer 1921."--p. vii-x.
Illustrated throughout with decorations and color costume plates by C. Lovat Fraser.
Plates accompanied by printed guard sheets.
"Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, Bungay, Sufflok."--Colophon.
Description
xviii, 93 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), music ; 26 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's cloth-backed yellow boards.
Classification
Department