GAY, John. The Beggar’s Opera. London: for John Watts, at the Printing-Office in Wild-Court, near Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, 24th May 1728. Second edition, 8vo (195 x 115mm.) Title, engraved music within text. (Browning, last leaf H2 with small paper repair to corner, contemporary ink annotation to lower margins, blanks replaced.) Near contemporary half calf (rebacked with original spine laid-down, extremities rubbed, endpapers replaced). Note: in the first edition the music was at the rear, not within the text. Provenance: C.E. Lawrence (gift inscribed to on front-free endpaper); Barbara Pool (gift inscribed to on the front-free endpaper); Charles Hughes (bookplate to front pastedown).