The Beggar's Opera [Limited Edition, Signed by Illustrator]

  • SIGNED
  • Paris: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club by G. Govone, 1937
By John Gay; A. P. Herbert [pref.]; Mariette Lydis [illus.]
Paris: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club by G. Govone, 1937. Very Good +. Paris: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club by G. Govone, 1937. Limited Edition, Signed by illustrator Mariette Lydis and numbered 849 of 1500 copies on colophon at back. Large octavo (25 cm); [180]pp. Fifteen (15) lithographic plates full-page throughout, collated complete. Boards full bound in dark blue buckram, stamped blind and in gilt. Top edge gilt; fore- and bottom edges deckled. Housed in publisher's slipcase with blue printing to spine.

Boards bumped at all edges with slight discoloration to spine and joints. Previous owner's bookplate laid in with ghost of its adhesive on first pastedown. Newspaper clippings laid in at back. Slipcase soiled, toned, with pencil to top of back panel; chipped at edges with minor exposure to spine and top edges but still intact.

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