Yale Center for British Art

Title:
The beggar's opera / written by Mr. Gay ; to which is prefixed the musick to each song.
Alternate Title(s):
Beggar's opera. Libretto. English.
Published / Created:
Garden City ; New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927.

Bungay, Suffolk : Richard Clay & Sons, Limited
Physical Description:
xviii, 93, [1] pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations, music ; 26 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
ML50.7 .B4 1927
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bert Boyson

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
With an appreciation of Claud Lovat Fraser, pages vii-x, by John Drinkwater.

Libretto by John Gay; includes unaccompanied melodies by Pepusch.

With six color plates by Claude Lovat Fraser based upon a production at The Lyric Theater, Hammersmith.

Printer's statement from page [94].

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's quarter black cloth and yellow boards, with printed labels. Autograph: John T. Quisenberry. 1928.
Subject Terms:
Ballad operas -- Librettos. | Ballad operas -- Librettos. | Quisenberry, John T. -- Autograph.
Contributors:
Pepusch, John Christopher, 1667–1752. | Drinkwater, John, 1882–1937 | Gay, John, 1685–1732. Beggar's opera. | Fraser, Claud Lovat, 1890–1921, artist. | Doubleday, Page & Company, publisher. | Richard Clay and Sons, printer.