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The first night Gilbert and Sullivan; containing complete librettos of the fourteen operas, exactly as presented at their premiere performances, together with facsimiles of the first-night programmes
Author:
Sullivan, Arthur
Author:
Gilbert, William S.
Editor:
Allen, Reginald
Publisher:
Limited Editions Club
Designer:
Ettenberg, Eugene
Printer:
Gallery Press
Edited, with a prologue and copious descriptive particulars, by Reginald Allen; and a foreword by Bridget D'Oyly Carte. Illustrated with contemporary drawings.
Contents: Thespis.--Trial by jury.--The sorcerer.--H. M. S. Pinafore.--The pirates of Penzance.--Patience.--Iolanthe.--Princess Ida.--The Mikado.--Ruddygore.--The yeomen of the guard.--The gondoliers.--Utopia, limited.--The grand duke.
Xxi, 465 p. illus., 27 facsims. (in portfolio) 32 cm.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John
Production date: AD 1958
"This edition ... assembles for the first time the original librettos of the fourteen operas. Eugene Ettenberg has designed the volume and has supervised its printing at the Gallery Press in New York. Fifteen hundred copies have been made, of which this is copy number [in ms] J.D."--Colophon Quarter bound in red velvet with gilt stamped floral designs on front and back cover; gilt stamped lettering on oval buckram label mounted on spine. Issued in slipcase (gold paper over card as is the portfolio case containing 27 facsimiles)
Support composed of paper
Accession number: PB 206-2003
Primary reference Number: 95562
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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