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The beggar's opera.

Title: The beggar's opera. Written by Mr. Gay. To which is prefixed the musick to each song ...
Publication: London, W. Heinemann, 1921.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KL (Fraser) (Gay. J. Beggar's opera)	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

v, 4, vii-xiv, 93, [1] p. col. front., illus., 7 col. pl.; 26 cm.

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Note

"Printed ... by Richard Clay & Sons, limited, Bungay, Suffolk."
"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." Scene and costumes designed by C. Lovat Fraser.
"Note on the scene and costumes at the Lyric theratre, Hammersmith. [By C. Lovat Fraser]": p. vii-ix.
"Claud Lovat Fraser. [An appreciation, by John Drinkwater]" p. [1]-4.

Call Number

*KL (Fraser) (Gay. J. Beggar's opera)

OCLC

6893995

Title

The beggar's opera. Written by Mr. Gay. To which is prefixed the musick to each song ...

Imprint

London, W. Heinemann, 1921.

Local Note

With col'd. mounted illus. inserted on p. [xii] and front of book-jacket tipped in.

Presentation copy "To Haldane Macfall from Lovats parents ... Sept. 1921."

With bookplate of Haldane Macfall.

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Pepusch, John Christopher, 1667-1752.

Gay, John, 1685-1732. Beggar's opera.

Fraser, Claud Lovat, 1890-1921. Illustrator

John Shaw Billings Memorial Collection.

Research Call Number

*KL (Fraser) (Gay. J. Beggar's opera)