THE FIRST NIGHT GILBERT AND SULLIVAN:
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1958.
No. 720 of 1500 copies. Folio. xxi (i), 465p. Foreword by Bridget D'Oyly Carte. Illustrated from contemporary drawings. Bound in quarter red velvet over blue boards with a decorative gilt inner border, oval spine label gilt. The facsimiles are laid loose in foil gold foil-covered box. Both housed in a slipcase also of gold foil-covered boards. Spine with trifling wear, else fine. Facsimile box with some edge wear. Slipcase worn and cracked around the edges - rough. Item #23031
"This edition... assembles for the first time the original librettos of the fourteen operas." (Colophon).
Monthly letter laid in.
Price: $95.00
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