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The Beggar's Opera.
Published by Paris: Limited Editions Club, 1937., 1937
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122pp, (9.5 x 13.5 inches), b&w illustrations. Number 1037, SIGNED by the lillustrator on the colophon page. Very good in original slipcase. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Navy boards, decorative embossing, gilt titles on cover and spine, top edge gilt. Deckle edge pages. Corners of book are bumped, pages affected at top corner. Otherwise crisp, tight, clean, no tears or creases, no markings. Slipcase is worn, soiled, cracked at the seams. Heavy book, international shipping may require extra charge. Signed by Illustrator.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Slipcase. Reprint. The Limited Editions Club 1937 Reprint Near Fine/Very Good Slipcase NOT signed. UNSIGNED. Nice reprint with summary by Limited Editions Club laid inside. Light tanning to spine o/w Fine. Slip case reinforced with clear library tape is tanned. HEAVY ITEM. No Exp.
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The Beggar's Opera [SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR]
Published by The Limited Editions Club, Paris, 1937
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: vg. Lydis, Mariette (illustrator). Limited edition. 1/1500. Folio. 121, [5]pp. Uncut. Original blue cloth with spine and covers stamped and lettered in gilt, covers blind stamped. Top edge gilt. Limitation page numbered and signed by Mariette Lydis. The "Beggar's Opera" is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today. Ballad operas were satiric musical plays that used some of the conventions of opera, but without recitative. The lyrics of the airs in the piece are set to popular broadsheet ballads, opera arias, church hymns and folk tunes of the time. This exquisite limited edition is lavishly illustrated with 15 stunning lithographs by Mariette Lydis. Spine slightly age-toned. Binding and interior in overall very good condition.
