The Bab Ballads with which are included Songs of a Savoyard by W. S. Gilbert.
Published by Macmillan and Co., Limited: London.563 pages. 3rd reprint of 1924 1st thin paper edition. Soft blue leather binding with gilt illustration on face and gilt lettering on spine. With 350 illustrations by the author.
W. S. Gilbert, renowned author of the Savoy Operas, was also the creator of the Bab Ballads--"possibly the best comic verse--and surely the best illustrated--in the English language," according to James Ellis.
Gilbert published these poems, together with his own, grotesque drawings signed "Bab," a childhood nickname, in Fun and other magazines in the late nineteenth century. In 1898, the older and by then distinguished Gilbert substituted pallid and inoffensive drawings for the originals, which he had come to believe "erred gravely in the direction of unnecessary extravagance." Since then the ballads have been collected and published in various editions, most of which have featured the revised drawings and only a selection of the poems.
Condition: Gilt page edges all round Slight damage to edge of pages. Previous owner's inscription..
Published by Macmillan and Co., Limited: London.563 pages. 3rd reprint of 1924 1st thin paper edition. Soft blue leather binding with gilt illustration on face and gilt lettering on spine. With 350 illustrations by the author.
W. S. Gilbert, renowned author of the Savoy Operas, was also the creator of the Bab Ballads--"possibly the best comic verse--and surely the best illustrated--in the English language," according to James Ellis.
Gilbert published these poems, together with his own, grotesque drawings signed "Bab," a childhood nickname, in Fun and other magazines in the late nineteenth century. In 1898, the older and by then distinguished Gilbert substituted pallid and inoffensive drawings for the originals, which he had come to believe "erred gravely in the direction of unnecessary extravagance." Since then the ballads have been collected and published in various editions, most of which have featured the revised drawings and only a selection of the poems.
Condition: Gilt page edges all round Slight damage to edge of pages. Previous owner's inscription..
Published by Macmillan and Co., Limited: London.563 pages. 3rd reprint of 1924 1st thin paper edition. Soft blue leather binding with gilt illustration on face and gilt lettering on spine. With 350 illustrations by the author.
W. S. Gilbert, renowned author of the Savoy Operas, was also the creator of the Bab Ballads--"possibly the best comic verse--and surely the best illustrated--in the English language," according to James Ellis.
Gilbert published these poems, together with his own, grotesque drawings signed "Bab," a childhood nickname, in Fun and other magazines in the late nineteenth century. In 1898, the older and by then distinguished Gilbert substituted pallid and inoffensive drawings for the originals, which he had come to believe "erred gravely in the direction of unnecessary extravagance." Since then the ballads have been collected and published in various editions, most of which have featured the revised drawings and only a selection of the poems.
Condition: Gilt page edges all round Slight damage to edge of pages. Previous owner's inscription..
