Shelfmark
Krr.3.46(02)
Author
Title
The beggar's opera; as it is acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden. Written by Mr. Gay..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for J. Wenman, No. 144, Fleet-Street; and sold by all other booksellers in town and country,, MDCCLXXVII.. [1777]
Physical description
18 p., [1] leaf of plates ; 22 cm.
Note
Possibly issued with 'The chaplet. A musical entertainment.' By Moses Mendez.
Note
Title-page and preliminaries included in pagination.
Note
Printed in two columns.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T13792
Provenance
No provenance information recorded in this item.
Binding
Sammelband. Late 18th- or early 19th-century half speckled calf and brown speckled or marbled paper over pasteboard. Spine rounded, divided into six large compartments by transverse gilt single fillets; second compartment from head of spine has title-label with gilt lettering; false headbands of alternating red and green thread. Textblock trimmed and rounded. Endpapers comprising at both sides a single bifolium of laid paper, forming a pastedown with free endpaper; undecorated.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: wanting plate.
Copy-specific note
Bookseller's code on free upper endpaper recto (of sammelband).
Copy-specific note
Bound with 37 other items, shelfmarks Krr.3.46(01), (03) - (38).
Subject
Ballad opera 18th century.
Genre/Form
Plays.
Added entry--name
Wenman, Joseph, ? - -1790 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50726