W. S. Gilbert: A Classic Victorian and His Theatre

Hard Cover, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

A nice crisp, bright copy, clean and unmarked inside and out, bound in black embossed paper-covered boards; extreme tips of a few upper corners bent; binding shows no apparent wear; dust jacket is clean, bright, and unmarked, with only very minor shelfwear. Illustrated with b&w plates. ; Biography of Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911), the Gilbert in Gilbert and Sullivan, the "most brilliant dramatist of Victorian England" and forerunner of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. 9.5" tall; 374 pages.

ISBN: 0198161743           Item #4110013

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