"Operette" 1938 COWARD, Noel Dioramas/ Shadowboxes Bound in green buckram cloth

Bound in green buckram cloth with gilt decoration and title

sumptuously illustrated with over 150 folio color photographic plates of fashion designs

Jr after 3 years of "faithful" and incidentally expert work

which is examined through rarely seen plaster sculptures that highlight the artist’s working process

Robert Elliott

"Operette" 1938 COWARD, Noel Dioramas/ Shadowboxes Bound in green buckram clothCOWARD, Nol [134] pp. William Heinemann Ltd 1938 9" x 6 1 8" Operette is a musical in two acts composed, written and produced by Nol Coward. The show is a period piece, set in the year 1906 at the fictional "Jubilee" theatre. The story concerns an ageing Viennese operetta star, who warns the young ingenue not to marry a nobleman. The piece premiered in 1938. Coward's attempt to follow up the mittel European nostalgia of his hit operetta Bitter Sweet