Gay mr john (36 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Dust Jacket Included. February 1923. ---------Black cloth spine, yellow hardcovers, paper cover label-- tall narrow book, 10" x 6". 93 pages, text is very very thick stiff paper, color frontispiece and 7 other plates, color with onion skin protector, and illustrated with music examples. Scenes and Costumes by C. Lovat Fraser. -------- ALSO INCLUDED- - 1977 receipt for the book, on letterhead of Theodore Front, a shop in Beverly Hills, California, book bought by John J. Chapman, himself an author, and former owner of the book --- ALSO INCLUDED --- a postcard, b/w photo from files of National Gallery, London, of a scene from The Beggars Opera (?)--------GOOD CONDITION, solid binding, solid clean text, spotting on front cover- - - dust jacket is orangish paper with black lettering and illustration, and it is faded.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. With a Memoir by Austin Dobson. xxxix, [3], 238pp, [2], printed on handmade laid paper bearing the watermark "D & Co, used by William Durham. Bound in maroon cloth, with beveled edges, top edges gilt, deckled page edges, binding and hinges tight. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper, darkened endpapers.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. Vellum binding. xxxix, 238pp. Binding slightly grubby and worn. A decent copy. With a memoir by Austin Dobson. (q15).

[NONE] 1921. (hardcover) Very good. 93pp. 8vo. Quater bound, yellow paper boards. Paste down title blocks to front and spine. Starting at various points throughout the text, yet remains solidly bound. Printed on heavy stock. There is a tiny paste down stick to the front fixed endpaper. 8 colour plates, which includes the frontispiece; 4 with tissue guards, 4 missing. Internally clean. The Beggar's Opera introduced the genre of 'ballad opera', the forerunner to the modern musical, and was well received when it was first staged at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1728.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. VG original stiffened wrappers, illustrated front cover, lightly soiled, poem written in pencil on ffep, mild foxing to edges, otherwise an attractive copy.

Condizione: Good. 1923 Gift dedication to endpaper. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Shows some signs of wear but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. A splendid Cartoon/caricature portrait, mounted (matted) and ready to frame, printed in 1922 from an original drawing by Powys Evans, better known as Quiz. Mount size approx 12 x 8 inches, 30 x 20 cms. A fine study of John Gay in an oval, simply entitled 'Mr Gay'. POWYS EVANS (QUIZ) (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. #383 Of 700 Copies Of A Limited Edition Designed By Francis Meynell, Printed On Van Gelder Paper In Fell Types. Xcvii, 165 Pp. A Miscellany Published In 1717, Now So Rare That In 1934 Only Four Copies Were Known To Exist; Here First Reprinted. Full Dark Green Morocco, Spine With "Pope's Own Miscellany" In Gilt, Otherwise Plain; Blindstamped Border Rules On Covers; Endpapers In Two Shades Of Blue, Interwoven With Gilt, With Bookplate Of Vyvyan Edwards (Whose Fine Book Collection Was Dispersed In A 1966 Sale At Christie, Manson & Woods.) Binding With Light Rubbing At Corners And Spine Edges, No Damage; Contents Clean.…

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. A splendid antique Engraved portrait, printed circa 1790. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small Octavo. xxxix, 238pp. With a memoir by Austin Dobson. Frontispiece portrait. Former owner's blind stamp to f.f.e.p. and title. Publisher's full vellum, printed titles. T.E.G. others uncut. Boards a little sprung as is the nature with vellum bindings. A few minor marks. Otherwise a 'Very Good+' copy.…

Condizione: Poor. New edition (first thus?). HB. Leather spine and corners over marbled paper-covered boards. Octavo. 62pp; 90pp, 63pp. With frontispiece engravings to the Beggar's Opera and Congreve's The Mourning Bride. Three plays published in one volume. Poor condition. The contents (pages) are fair to good, but the covers are very worn and rubbed, with the front board detached and the rear board held by one thread; the spine leather very dessicated. Contents all present but many pages browned or grubby, first engraving has an old stain from red wax over it, second one repaired tear; original owner's name in various places and date (Nicholas and Wm Greaves, 1782, Bakewell).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Many illus., 6 x 3.5", gilt-lettered brown buckram backed original leather, 192pp, new spine a bit rubbed, old leather worn and scraped, forecorners bumped and chipped, bookplate of A. Bleecker Banks (twice mayor of Albany) inside front cover, blindstamp of book binder on rear blank, pp toned a bit with some very light yellowing but still a nice copy; a nice, tight copy.…

Decorated Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Signed Limited Edition. xvi, 108 pp. Decorated blue cloth stamped in silver and black. No. 242 of 380 copies signed by the artist William Nicholson. Top edge gilt. Printed on hand-made paper. Spine slightly faded and worn at head & tail. Nine tissue-guarded tipped-in full page colour plates by William Nicholson. Short closed tear to frontispiece. Musical notation and head and tail-pieces. Some fading to the spine. Small 4to. Nicholson, William (illustratore).…

Cloth. Condizione: Good. A brightly illustrated edition of Gay's ballad opera, signed with an inscription from the widow of Claud Lovat Fraser. Signed and inscribed by Grace Lovat Frazer, the widow of Claud Lovat Fraser, born Grace Inez Crawford, an American singer, actress, costume designer, translator of plays, and author of several books. The pair met in her theatre dressing room during a fitting for a faun costume for Hugo Rumbold's adaptation of L'Apres-midi d'un Faune. They soon married and, until Fraser's death in 1921, worked jointly on a number of theatre projects, including Fraser's long-running production of The Beggar's Opera. With an inscription which reads: "So glad we have met, with love from Grace Lovat Fraser, July 24th 1958." Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and six colour plates, with numerous in-text images. Collated, lacking one plate to face page 56 entitled 'Lucy Lockit'. The Beggar's Opera is a satirical ballad opera in three acts originally written in 1728. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and ran for sixty-two consecutive performances, making it the second longest run in theatre history up to that point. The play is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today. Written by John Gay, an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club, best known for this work. With music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch, a German-born composer who spent most of his working life in England. Illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser, an English artist, designer and author. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, sound with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Light sunning to the board edges with minor loss to the head and tail of the spine as well as the board tips. Small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine resulting in minor fraying. With a split in the cloth to the rear joint and small splits to the front joint. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with scattered spotting throughout. Age toning to the endpapers. Good. Claud Lovat Fraser (illustratore). signed by author. book. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket, As Issued. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. SCARCE. # 49 of an edition of 50 large paper copies SIGNED by R. & R. Clark, Printers, Edinburgh at limitation page. Finely bound in half red crushed morocco over marbled boards, five gilt ruled raised bands with gilt stamped devices each section, matching marbled end papers, top edge gilt. Near Fine, toning only at frontispiece engraved portrait of Gay, small rubs at corners, else Fine and bright. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.…

1st edn. 6 vols in 1. 8vo. Later half calf on marbled paper-laid boards, gilt ruled raised-ribbed spine with contrasting label, red sprinkled edges (small abrasions on boards and lightly rubbed at edges). Pp. [iv] + iv + 62 [&] [iv] + 83 + [5] [&] [iv] + 26 + [2] [&] [viii] + 68 + [4] + vii + 64 [&] [xii] + 70 + [10] + [2] blank, illus with woodcut head and tailpieces (title page of Gorboduc loosened and title page of Regulus with loss at bottom half and partial loss at following page; previous owners' armorial bookplate on front paste-down and neat inscription in contemporary hand at top edge of title page of Regulus). The Tragedy of Gorboduc (Robert Dodsley 1736), The Brothers a Tragedy Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane (Robert Dodsley 1753), The History of the Life and Reign of the Valiant Prince Edward (T. Cooper 1739), Achilles an Opera as it is Perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden (J. Watts 1733), Regulus a Tragedy as it is Acted by His Majesty's Servants at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane by Mr. Havard (H. Woodfall 1744), Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John a Tragedy (J. Watts 1745). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [8], 184pp. Orange hardcover, title in gilt on black spine. Top edge dyed orange. Stated "First Published, April, 1929" on copyright page. Solid text block, toning to top and bottom edges, a near fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, $2.50 retail price on front flap, faint soiling, chipping to edges and corners. Laid in is a 1928 playbill for a limited engagement of The Beggar's Opera at the Eighth Street Theatre in Chicago, part of the Opera's Bicentennial Anniversary Tour of America. First edition of Mr. Gay by Oscar Sherwin, with a laid-in playbill from the 200th Anniversary production of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera. (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Second Edition. 194 pages, plus 20 pages ads. Engravings at beginning of each chapter and title page, plus small tailpiece engravings. Worn leather binding. Loss at head and tail of spine. Corners bumped, worn. Joints cracked; board held by ties. Inked previous owner information on the front flyleaf; dated 1731. Endpapers foxed. A bit of foxing to the title page. Else pages fairly clean, with little foxing. ; B&W Illustrations; POH19D.…

12mo. (approx. 17 x 9.7cm) hardback in original 18th Century full calf, raised bands, gilt rules to spine and boards. 83pp., plus 1pp. Epilogue, with engraved frontispiece; [18], 49pp., plus 5pp. Publisher's advertisements, with engraved frontispiece; 83pp., plus 1pp. Epilogue, with half-title and 1pp. Publisher's advertisements at front; 58pp. plus 2pp. Table of Songs. Cast Lists to first and last plays. Contemporary ink initials to front pastedown. Foredge of title page and Table of Songs of The Beggar's Opera have been trimmed with slight loss to text (please see photos). Occasional light foxing and browning to pages. Some wear and rubbing, mainly to spine, and a small area of old worming to lower board. Overall a Good Copy. This is one volume of a large collection of uniformly bound mainly 18th century collections of plays (generally 4 or 5 per volume) from the collection of the Vaughan Jenkins family of the Manor of Priston in Somerset. They were mostly bought at the time of publication in London (c.1713 - 1765, but some as early as 1655) and uniformly bound. Many of the volumes have the initials MCJ (Mary Caroline Jenkins, 1731-1790) or ED (Elizabeth Davis, nee Jenkins, 1736-1810) who were the daughters of Elizabeth Jenkins (1712-1766) and William Jenkins (1688-1774), who became Lord of the Manor of Priston in 1757 when the family moved from London. These books all remained at Priston until being inherited by the uncle of the vendor of the collection. (Shelf 130) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.…

Full-Leather. Condizione: Good. Third Edition. Two Volumes. Third Edition from 1720. Volume I contains mainly verses by Alexander Pope: 'particularly' I Windsor Forest, II Essay on Criticism, III Rape of the Lock, IV Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, V Verses to the Memory of a Lady, VI To Mr Jervas, with Fresnoy's Art of Painting, VII To a Young Lady, with the Works of Voiture, and VIII Eloisa to Abelard. Volume II, Miscellaneous Poems, Translations and Imitations, contains works by a number of authors with the most significant being Dr. William King, Mr. Elisha Fenton, the Revd. Mr. Broome, the Revd. Mr. James Ward and the Reverend Mr. Archdeacon Danie. Volume II contains an index to the contents of both volumes. Both volumes are bound in contemporary full leather binding with five raised bands to the spine. The title and volume labels on the spine are lost although the volume numbers are blind stamped to the spine. The spines have chipping at the top and bottom and some edge cracking. The corners are bumped with some rubbing. Wale Family bookplate to the front pastedowns and the second volume has another family name, Lady Wale, to the front free endpaper. Browning around the edges of the endpapers. Creasing to the top corners of pages 37 to 62 in the first volume. Two sections of the text protrude a little from the rest of the text block in volume II. There is also some browning to the title pages and the frontispiece in Volume I which is a portrait of Pope and the pages are browned but are otherwise generally unmarked.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Quarto, 546pp., illustrated with frontispiece and two additional plates by William Kent. A good or better smoker's copy in a contemporary brown calf binding. Boards scuffed, corners and extremities quite worn, but intact, and spine label partly perished, but mostly present, though faded. Internally clean, crisp, and bright. Externally worn, internally clean, and most importantly a complete and unrestored copy of this important work of poetry. …

First edition. Small octavo, bound in later half olive calf and marbled boards, half-title, [6], 68pp, [3] pages publisher ads dated February 28, 1733 at rear. John Gay's final "ballad opera" - his first was "The Beggar's Opera" of 1728, which began the popular genre. "Achilles" was published a few months after the author's death. Slight wear to edges of boards, half-title soiled, upper outside corner of page 47/48 reattached (with surgical precision!) with gold thread, text quite clean, previous owner bookplate to pastdowns.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 8vo. Pp (xii), 194. Engraved title vignette and 51 engraved head pieces to each fable. Full paneled calf , wear to extremities and dent to front board. Water stain affecting the bottom front corners of the first and last few leaves. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Gut. Fabeln John Gay: Fables by the late Mr. Gay, Volume 1 & 2, London 1737-42, Kupferstiche "Fables by the late Mr. Gay." Mischauflage (Band 1 in fünfter Auflage von 1737, gedruckt für J. und R. Tonson und J. Watts und Band 2 in zweiter Auflage von 1742, gedruckt für J. und P. Knapton und T. Cox, jeweils in London), in einheitlichem Einband des 19. Jahrhunderts. So komplett. Mit 51 Kupferstichen im Text (von Fourdrinier, v.d. Gucht u.a. nach W. Kent, Wootton u.a.) im Band 1 und 17 ganzseitigen Kupfertafeln (von G. Scotin nach H. Gravelot) im Band 2. London 1737-1742 Halblederbände (19,8 x 13 x 2,3 cm) des 19. Jahrhunderts, mit marmoriertem Schnitt. (14) + 194 + (12) + 155 Seiten. Mit insgesamt 68 Kupferstichen. --- Zustand: Einbände leicht berieben, Seiten etwas fleckig, die Stiche gut erhaltern. John Gay (1685-1732) war ein englischer Schriftsteller, der vor allem Gedichte, Erzählungen, Romane und Fabeln verfasste. Zusammen mit Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope und John Arbuthnot bildete Gay die als Scriblerus Club bekannte Gruppe von Tory-Satirikern. Gays bekanntestes Werk ist das Textbuch zu dem satirischen Singspiel The Beggar's Opera. (Quelle: wikipedia.).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. [ii], vii, [1], 72 pages + 31 pages of engraved music. Early rebinding in half-calf and papered boards. Title leaf has been cropped and laid down, with the publisher's imprint lacking from the lower part of the leaf. Page dimensions: 232 x 184mm. A 2" split to leather at tail of front joint. 3/4" chips to leather at head and tail of spine. Boards rubbed. Corners of boards worn. Provenance: Early owner's signature: "Chs. Kirkpatrick Sharpe" [Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (c. 1781-1851), of Hoddom Castle, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Kirkpatrick Sharpe was an antiquary, an artist, a Freemason, a friend of the poet Robert Burns, and a friend of Sir Walter Scott]. Later owner's inscription: "R. B. Willis from W. R. K. Bedford 1852". [Robert Bruce Willis (1826-1897), who emigrated to New Zealand in the 19th century, son of John Walpole Willis, a Supreme Court Judge in New South Wales, Australia; William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford? (1826-1905).]; 4to.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good -. First Edition. Quarto, 72pp., plus 31pp of engraved music. Overall about very good in late 19th or early 20th century 3/4 polished green calf and green cloth boards. Wear to extremities of the binding, including some loss at the base. Spine dried out and front outer joint is fragile, and the front board is partly detached, but holding. Internally really quite a nice example, free of foxing and age-toning. A few contemporary pen-markings in the margins, not obscuring any text. Later endpapers, and there is no half-title present (I am not sure if this is as issued).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket, As Issued. First Thus. Finely bound by Sangorski & Suttcliffe (signed) in half polished calf over marbled boards, green leather labels lettered in gilt on an ornately gilt spine with five raised bands and gilt tail date, marbled end papers, top edge gilt. Published by Heinemann in 1923, they also published a signed limited edition that year. This edition with 8 color plates by William Nicholson. The sequel to "The Beggar's Opera". Near Fine, light rubbing to calf at tips. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Illus. title page; 50 illus. plates (one for each fable), 8 x 5", rebacked old paneled calf, 155pp, covers a bit rubbed, corners bumped and lightly chipping, gilt-lettered spine a bit sunned, some light water staining to upper gutters, finger soil else a nice copy of the Third Edition. ALSO: FABLES BY THE LATE MR. GAY, Volume the Second. J. and P. Knapton: London 1738. Illus. title page, 16 full page plates (one for each fable), binding identical to volume one, but no staining. The pair.…

Leather. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Attractively bound in half calf, this is the first collected edition of the poetry of John Gay, illustrated with two plates by William Kent. The first collected edition of Gay's poetry, published in order to clear his significant debts.Complete in two volumes, bound in one.A collection of the poems of the popular eighteenth century poet John Gay.Illustrated with a frontispiece to volume I, and one further plate to each volume from William Kent. Collated, complete.With the armorial bookplate of Strathallan to the front pastedown. Inscribed 'Henley' to volume I title page.Containing many of Gay's most popular works, including 'The Shepherd's Week', a poem on the rural life of England. In a half calf binding, with marbled paper covered boards, and gilt detailing. Back strip significantly age toned, with instances of rubbing to joints and back strip head and tail. Joints starting, with boards firmly held. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages age toned due to paper type, with instances of spotting and handling marks throughout. Loss of paper to gutter of final leaf, resulting in loss to a few words. Minor worming to tail of final thirty leaves, not affecting text. Very Good. William Kent (illustratore). book.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Early edition, of uncertain priority, c. 1714. Scarce "Ordinary Paper Copy" bound in later grey laid paper wrappers. Engraved frontipiece and six other plates by Louis du Guernier. Early ownership signature of "Chris Gunby Coll Joh." to title-page, with a good deal of later provenance indicated inside slipcase, including Alfred Matthew Hale (armorial bookplate), the Braikenridge Collection, David and Lulu Borowitz and Michael Curtis Phillips. Very light soiling and staining, mostly to the last several leaves; wrappers moderately soiled and creased. The book is near fine internally. [16+]60+4[index]pp. Preserved in a morocco-backed slip-case. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.…