Author: GILBERT, W.S.
Title: The Bab Ballads with Which Are Included Songs of a Savoyard
Description: London, George Routledge. 1899. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Gilbert, W.S. Gilt title with red figures on light brown cloth boards which have age darkening and a little wear to spine head and corner tips. Internally there is age darkening and foxing to endpapers and to the margins of some pages else a clean and tight copy. Top edge gilt. Fore edge uncut. Fourth edition November 1899 (first was December 1897). xii + 562 pages. Portrait frontispiece on card tissue protected. 350 illustrations by W.S. Gilbert. Several of the Bab Ballads appeared in the pages of 'Fun', magazine and later some were published in smaller selections and this volume, combining Songs of a Savoyard', has two hundred new drawings made for this volume. A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.9 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST NOT EX LIB 4. Very Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Light Opera, Ballads, Savoy Opera, W.S. Gilbert Drawings, Sir William Schwenk Gilbert Gilbert, W.S.


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