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GILBERT & SULLIVAN and their world.
by BAILY, LESLIE:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near FINE./FINE.
- ISBN 10
- 0500130469
- ISBN 13
- 9780500130469
- Seller
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About This Item
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st thus.[Originally published by Cassell, 1952 and revised Spring Books,1966.] NFINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but there is a small diagonal clip to top of ffe,no price-clip to dw/dj.Pictorial colour caricatures dw/dj with b/w photographic scene from Sadler's Wells Opera production of Patience.Grey paper-covered boards with printer's device to upper bd and letters to spine/backstrip in gilt.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,128pp includes bibliography,a chronology,143 b/w illus+photographs,list of illustrations and an index. The author with this edition,since further research has uncovered fresh facts,while others have been revised; concentrates on the span of Gilbert and Sullivan's lives alone,reassessing the cultural contribution they made,with D'Oyly Carte,to their world,to posterity and not least to the gaeity of nations.In this lively and authoritative biography Baily sets its fascinatingly contrasted progenitors in the context of the world in which they worked and from which they drew their inspiration. W.S.Gilbert was in many ways a typical Victorian gentleman,yet his satirical absurdities often made his contemporaries uneasy; while Arthur Sullivan rose from a working-class background to become the foremost British composer of the day and the darling of smart society.With Richard D'Oyly Carte,whose business acumen allied to progressive taste catalysed their talents,these two wrought a revolution in the theatre,and Baily traces the story of their partnership from the inauspicious failure of Thespis through the dazzling succession of triumphs at home and abroad to the final series of disastrous quarrels. Text and illustrations combine to give a vivid picture of an age,and of the men who created a uniquely English confection of mock-heroic satire, geniality and authentic lyricism which,far from fading with the age that engendered it,still retains a special place in the culture and affections of the English-speaking world.
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- Bookseller
- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- GILBERT & SULLIVAN and their world.
- Author
- BAILY, LESLIE:
- Illustrator
- illustrated with b/w illustrations + photographs.
- Format/Binding
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st thus.
- Book Condition
- Used - Near FINE.
- Jacket Condition
- FINE.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0500130469
- ISBN 13
- 9780500130469
- Publisher
- LONDON.THAMES & HUDSON,1973.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1973
- Keywords
- q52.BIOGRAPHY.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.ISBN 0500130469.BOOKS_GILBERT SULLIVAN.GILBERT OPERAS.GILBERT SULLIVAN BIOGRAPHY.SADLER'S WELLS OPERAS.D'OYLY CARTE.VICTORIAN THEATRE.HMS PINAFORE.PIRATES PENZANCE.THE MIKADO.THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD.THE GRAND DUK
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