Superficially the task of staging The Beggar's Opera was one of supreme ease. Indeed, so easy was it that it became a matter of some embarrassment to prune and select the required amount of data. Here was Hogarth and his actual scene of Newgate with Macheath in chains; here was Laroon's Cries of London falling, in its edition of 1733, pat into the period; here was the National Portrait Gallery and, added to these, here was the benefit of all Mr. Charles E. Pearce's research. After a month or two of work in designing, the ...
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Superficially the task of staging The Beggar's Opera was one of supreme ease. Indeed, so easy was it that it became a matter of some embarrassment to prune and select the required amount of data. Here was Hogarth and his actual scene of Newgate with Macheath in chains; here was Laroon's Cries of London falling, in its edition of 1733, pat into the period; here was the National Portrait Gallery and, added to these, here was the benefit of all Mr. Charles E. Pearce's research. After a month or two of work in designing, the ease became so marked and apparent that it engendered in me the beginnings of mistrust. Still, I persevered in scene and costume with historically accurate reproduction and, until three weeks before the actual work was due to be carried out at the costumier's and in the painting shops, I felt comparatively cheerful.
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Used-Acceptable. Fair hardback. Bound in yellow paper-covered boards, with black cloth spine & paper title labels; colour & line illustrations. Brief gift inscription dated 1921. Some light foxing. Title label on spine browned, with some discolouration to label on front board. Red stain on back board. Head & foot of spine a little worn.
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Good in Good jacket. London: William Heinemann, 1921. New edition, 1921. Illustrated with eight tissue-protected color plates. Yellow hardcover with black cloth spine paper labels in red and green, orange dustjacket. Covers have rubbing and some foxing (age-speckling), good hinges, sound text block, many pages with light foxing (color plates not affected), no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket has some shelf soil and rubbing, one minor chip to spine head. Includes the publisher's original advertising postcard. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
