Apr 14, 2003 - Sale 1968

Sale 1968 - Lot 69

Price Realized: $ 460
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
GAY, JOHN. The Beggar's Opera . . . Second Edition: To which is added, The Ouverture in Score; and the Musick prefix'd to each Song. [8], 8, 76 pages. Letterpress music in text. 8vo, 19th-century 1/4 red morocco, spine darkened, joints starting; contents browned, title soiled, some dampstaining in lower outer corners with traces of mold. London: John Watts, 1728

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With 2 advertisements on title verso; without "The names of the Lilliputians" in the Dramatis Personae; and without press figure on page 18.