The Beggar's Opera. A Faifhful Reproduction of the 1729 edition which includes the words and music of all the airs, as well as the score for the overture.
New York: Argonaut Books, 1961. 4to, original decorated boards, b&w frontis, dec sectios headings, pp xxiv-, 60, 46, -xxv-liv. Fine in very good slipcase (some rubbing to edges of pastedown on slipcase).
Facsimile of the original 1729 edition, with modern "commentaries by Louis Kronenberger and Max Goberman on the literary and musical background and with the original words of all the airs that John Gay adapted for this work." Item #88672
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