John Gay; Johann Christoph Pepusch: The Beggar s Opera. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn Fields

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John Gay; Johann Christoph Pepusch : The Beggar s Opera. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn Fields

John Watts, London, c. 1729.

Recent ½ calf with marbled boards, spine in six compartments of raised bands, gilt lettering on two. , An excellent copy, text and plates are clean and crisp., Small 4to, P. title, blank, (6), 1-60; 1-40; title, blank, i-viii, 1-72; 1-31., Title in red and black. Elaborate head and tail pieces and initials. With 77 pages of sheet music., Volume : Two volumes in one.

This edition contains the overture in score, the songs, and the basses. The overture and basses were composed by Johann Christoph Pepusch.
John Gay was an English poet and dramatist, a friend of both Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera, which “played for two seasons at Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 1728, and throughout the British Isles, making much sensation.” (Oxford Biography)


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