The beggar's opera. A comic opera. By John Gay. Adapted for theatrical representation, as performed at the Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane & Covent-Garden. Regulated from the prompt-book. By permission of the Managers. The lines distinguished by inverted commas are omitted in the representation. Cooke's edition. Embellished with super engravings

People / Organizations

• John Gay (Author)

Imprint

London : Printed for C. Cooke, No. 17, Paternoster-Row, and sold by all the booksellers in Great Britain, [1791?]

Publication year

1791

ESTC No.

T189702

Grub Street ID

225074

Description

72p.,plates ; 12°.

Note

With an engraved frontispiece, and an additional engraved titlepage.

Uncontrolled note

Date suggested by BMp on the basis of a MS. date on the titlepage. A reissue? The frontis. bears an imprint for J Bell's British Library and is dated February 1791; the work also contains adv. for "Bell's other weekly publications"; no Bell edition of this work in ESTC (10/04)