THE BEGGAR'S OPERA

Paris: Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hardcover. Fine in a broken slipcase lacking the bottom edge and with the backstrip detached. Mariette Lydis. Small folio (9-1/2" x 13-1/2") bound in gilt-decorated full blue buckram. Preface by A. P. Herbert. Illustrated with 15 full-page ORIGINAL MONOCHROME LITHOGRAPHS drawn on the stone by Mariette Lydis and pulled in Paris by F. Mourlot. Copy #473 of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.