Bodley Head booklet - Bernard Shaw & Max Beerbohm at Covent Garden.

Bernard Shaw & Max Beerbohm at Covent Garden. Foolscap 8vo, pp.19[1] + colophon, Printed at the Stellar Press for private distribution by the publishers for Christmas 1981.

One of 225 copies. Sewn into paper covers with a cartoon of Shaw and William Archer by Max Beerbohm om the font printed in blue and grey on light grey paper. A fine copy inscribed by John Ryder.

An article by Bernard Shaw (1889) on the opera season at Covent Garden and an essay by Max Beerbohm (1899) on a visit to Coven Garden as a social event. These two pieces were chosen to celebrate publication by The Bodley Head of Shaw's Music, edited by Dan H. Laurence, 1981.