Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional hardcover Book Club edition of The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by WS Gilbert and AS Sullivan, complete with an unclipped dust jacket protected in a new archival wrap. Book Club Edition unstated.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, lightly faded boards, strong title ink on a convex spine, foxed page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition without any marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with moderate surface wear, mild edge wear, and Book Club Edition stated on the front flap. Looks great in a new archival wrap.
From Trial by Jury to The Pirates of Penzance: the complete librettos of all fourteen Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
Complete and authentic, these are the librettos on which modern performances and recordings are based. Scattered among the songs are over seventy of the amusing, quirky pictures Gilbert drew to illustrate them. A chronology prepared for this edition sketches the authors’ lives and careers. This is a book that no lover of Gilbert and Sullivan, musical comedy, or indeed the English theater will want to be without.
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