The Beggar's Opera.; As it is acted At the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn-Fields.
Edinburgh: E. and J. Robertsons; W. Gray, 1758. 12mo, 68pp; pebble grained cloth with ribbed cloth spine, handwritten paper label. Popular edition. More
Edinburgh: E. and J. Robertsons; W. Gray, 1758. 12mo, 68pp; pebble grained cloth with ribbed cloth spine, handwritten paper label. Popular edition. More
London: Printed for J. Buckland, et al, 1788. Small 8vo, 230pp; contemporary calf, recased and rebacked; title page trimmed and mounted. Illustrated throughout with woodcut vignettes. More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. First Edition. 12mo, 147pp + errata; original boards, rebacked with pebble-grained cloth, printed leather spine label; endpapers renewed. More
Dublin: George Risk, 1752. Third Dublin edition. 12mo, 291 [1]pp, with misnumbered pages; contemporary calf, raised bands, leather spine label. More
London: Bernard Lintot, (1716). First Edition. 8vo, 80pp + index; full crushed red morocco gilt in the manner of Riviere by R. Bedford with gilt tooled spine, raised bands, dentelles, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. One of Gay's most popular works, this being from the large paper first issue, with engraved headpieces..... More
London: Bernard Lintot, 1730. First complete edition. 8vo, 80pp; three-quarter calf and marbled boards by Henry Young & Sons, Liverpool. Bookplate of Viscount Birkenhead on front pastedown. More
London: H. Hills, 1709. Pirated edition. 12mo, 16pp; later morocco-backed cloth. Gay's first work, printed in the year after its first publication. More