Wilfred Partington's "Gilbertian Copy"
A Bibliography of Sir William Schenck Gilbert with Bibliographical Adventures in the Gilbert & Sullivan Operas ... and an Introduction by R.E. Swartout.
London: [Privately printed] 30 Gerrard Street, W. 1, n.d. [1931].
Price: $450.00
About the item
SPECIAL COPY (in a total edition of 300 copies) assembled by the author for presentation to WILFRED PARTINGTON. [6], 105 pp. Illustrations in black and white after drawings by Gilbert, 2 mounted hand-colored illustrations. 1 vols. Small 4to. Wilfred Partington's "Gilbertian Copy" Three quarters brown pebbled morocco and grey cloth, lettered in gilt along spine: "GILBERTIAN COPY (1931) BIBLIOGRAPHY OF W.S. GILBERT", and with a special hand-colored, pictorial cover illustration mounted to boards bound in, with a hand-colored limitation leaf INSCRIBED to Partington, and a 2pp. Autograph Note (with a poem) by Partington bound in, explaining the history of the copy.
Item #223824
Unique presentation copy of this rare and charming bibliography. Partington's amusing note tells the story of this copy specially assembled for him by Searle, with personal anecdotes concerning some Gilbertian tomfoolery, a phony pirated edition, and Partington's poetic parody of "Bunthorne's first song in PATIENCE"
