Grosvenor Prints

The Lamplighters' Address for Christmas, 1877.
[Bristol? 1877.]
Letterpress broadside with wood-engraved vignette and border. Sheet 265 x 230mm (14¼ x 9"). Creases, right edge crushed.
A songsheet with a carol requesting Christmas gratuities for the lamplighters of Bristol.
[Ref: 44752] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

North Leicestershire Election. A New Song To An Old Tune. Dedicated to all gentlemen of Fox-killing tendencies.
[Leicestershire, c.1874.]
Satirical song in six letterpress verses, broadside with woodcut title. Thin rag paper, sheet 315 x 165mm, 12½ x 6½". Folds, as normal.
An extremely scarce locally-printed broadside celebrating the defeat at the polls of a parliamentary candidate for Leicestershire. The author is a hunt supporter who accuses the candidate of threatening to kill foxes and put and end to fox hunting in the district should he not be returned. He cites at top a quotation from White's History of Leicestershire in support of his stance. The final verse calls for two Tory candidates to be elected, one being Lord John James Robert Manners, seventh Duke of Rutland (1818 - 1906). Manners was first returned for North Leicestershire in 1857, and he represented that constituency until 1885; after the Redistribution Act, he sat for the Melton Division of the county until he succeeded his brother in the dukedom in 1888. The duke himself was not deeply interested in sport, but he held for a time the hereditary mastership of the Belvoir hounds, the private pack of the dukes of Rutland which was instituted in 1720, and has since been in their ownership.
[Ref: 13455] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Wreck'd and Saved. Descriptive Ballad Sung by M.r C. Bernard, in his Entertainment, ''La Bagatelle''.
Packer, & Griffin Lith. Stannard & Dixon.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 250 x 325mm (9¾ x 12¾"). Trimmed into inscriptions.
A music sheet cover depicting a lifeboat being launched from a beach and rowed through rough seas towards a striken ship.
[Ref: 60738] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Lines. Written after a walk on Cromer Cliff, and viewing the Light House, on Sunday night, May 23rd, 1819. W. Plowman.
Childs, Printer, Bungay.
Letterpress. Sheet: 175 x 100mm (7 x 4''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A letterpress poem written and published in Suffolk.
[Ref: 49390] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Love Your Own Land.
[Dublin, P. Brereton? c.1870.]
Letterpress songsheet with two woodcut vignettes. Sheet 285 x 110mm (11¼ x 4¼").
Irish famine interest. ''Can you equal famed Killarney / Whose name resounds from Shore to Shore''.
See ref: 52233.
[Ref: 52235] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

A New Song on Lovely Katey of Liskehan.
P. Brereton Printer, Lr, Exchange St, Dublin [c.1870.]
Letterpress songsheet with two woodcut vignettes. Sheet 285 x 110mm (11¼ x 4¼").
''You gentle muses I pray excuse me, / Your kind infusion to me grant once more, / Til I praise a maiden sweet engageing, She is lovely Venis that I do adore...''
[Ref: 52238] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

A Song, Addressed to the Independent Electors of Lymington. To the Tune of 'Gee Ho, Dobbin'.
R. Galpine, Printer, Lymington. [n.d., c.1812.]
Letterpress song sheet. 285 x 150mm (11¼ x 6"). Folds.
A broadside satirising the candidates for MP for Lymington, Hampshire. The chorus runs: 'Their fiat's gone forth, - if you swerve, - by the Lord, / You'll be duck'd in a horse-pond, and feather'd and tarr'd'.
[Ref: 52011] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Defence and Relief of Mafeking. Descriptive Fantasia by Cyril Hendrich.
London; W. Paxton & Co Ltd. 95 New Oxford Street, W.C. [n.d., c.1900.]
Music sheet; 6pp., tinted lithographic cover. 360 x 260 mm (14''x 10'')
The illustrated cover has medallion portraits of Baden-Powell, Plumer & Carrington.
[Ref: 51362] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Matchless Clarinda set by Mr Handel. P.68.
[London: J. Newbery, 1745.]
Engraved music sheet. 210 x 155mm (8¼ x 6"), with large margins. Repaired tear bottom left margin.
The music for Handel's 'Matchless Clarinda', written c.1725 (HWV 228-20). From Thomas Arne's 'Universal harmony, or, the gentlemen & ladies social companion : consisting of a great variety of the best & most favourite English & Scots songs, cantatas &c &c. With a curious design by way of headpiece expressive of the sense of each particular song'.
[Ref: 53389] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Melodious Songstress. Andante. Set by Sig.r Putti of Cambridge. 30.
[n.d. c.1740.]
Etching, engraving and musical notation, rare with large margins; paper watermarked. Plate 324 x 196mm (12¾ x 7¾").
From "Calliope, or English Harmony: a collection of the most celebrated English and Scots Songs". Pictorial headpiece and flute part.
[Ref: 31248] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Military Divertimento for the Piano Forte with an Accompaniment for a Flute Violin and Bass ad libitum Composed and Humbly Dedicated (by Permission) to His Royal Highness The Duke of Cumberland by K. Von Esch.
T. King sc. 411 Strand.
London Printed by Broderip & Wilkinson 13 Haymarket where may be had all this Authors works [n.d., c.1800].
Etching. 280 x 200mm (11 x 8"). Trimmed within plate on right.
A music cover, featuring a scroll draped over a piano and other musical instruments.
[Ref: 57318] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Minnie Warren's Quadrille, (Sister of Mrs. Genereral Tom Thumb.) By Stephen Glover. "Performed Daily at Commodore Nutts Grand Levée".
T. Packer Lith. Standard & Dixon Imp.
[n.d., c.1870].
Chromolithograph, rare. Collector's blind stamp in top left corner, '3. 2. 81. New Burlington'. Sheet size: 335 x 255mm (13¼ x 10"). Cut.
A brightly coloured songsheet cover for 'Minnie Warren's Quadrille', by Stephen Glover, performed daily at Commodore Nutts Grand Levée. Huldah Pierce Warren Newell (1849 - 1878), better known as Minnie Warren, was a dwarf and an entertainer. Her sister, Lavinia Warren, was married to General Tom Thumb. They were very well known in 1860s' America and their meeting with Abraham Lincoln was covered in the press at the time.
[Ref: 33570] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Dedicated to the London Missionary Society The Missionary's Requiem. An Ode. Written expressly by J. N. Osborn on Occasion of the Lamented Death of the Rev.d John Williams. Composed & Arranged with an Accompaniment for Four Voices for Organ, Seraphine or Piano-Forte by John King.
Ent. Stat. Hall. Published by Ward & Co.
Sold by Purday 50, St Paul's Church Yard, Wightman, Paternoster Row. Hart, 109, Hatton Garden. J. Peck 44, Newgate Street, by the Author 2, Beresford Terrrace, Walworth, & by all Book & Music Sellers.
Illustrated songsheet. Sheet: 260 x 345mm (10¼ x 13½"). Staining and foxing.
The vignettes in the illustration show Rev John William's house, murder and the ship on which he arrived.
[Ref: 42761] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

LXXXVII. 295.
I.R. Schellenberg delin. I.R. Holzhall Sculps.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching, 165 x 130mm. 6½ x 5". Slight paper discoloration. Three spots to margin.
A putto sits on a wall, his arm around an urn, above a boy sitting next to a collection of instruments and reading a sheet of music. A book illustration or frontispiece. By Johann Rudolph Schellenberg (1740 - 1806), Swiss painter, etcher and author.
[Ref: 10541] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Moet and Chandon. Written by H.Hurille, composed, and sung with the greatest success by George Leybourne.
Alfred Concanen. Conganen, Lith. Stannard & Son, 7, Poland St.
[Hopwood & Crew, 42, New Bond Street, W. ][n.d., c.1881.]
Music sheet printed covers with a coloured lithograph, 5pp. music, advert on back. Edges worn, cover trimmed at bottom.
"Moet and Chandon for Me", sequel to the famous "Champagne Charlie", also written by Leybourne . This was an early celebrity endorsement: he was paid by Moet to compose the songs and would appear on stage waving a bottle of vintage Moet & Chandon. A rival, Alfred Vance, had the same arrangement with Cliquot [See item 17925]. Alfred Concanen (1835-1886) was one of the leading lithographers of the Victorian period, best remembered for his illustrated sheet music covers.
[Ref: 17920] £65.00

Verse II. 'Twas not for its splendour, That dwelling was dear, 'Twas not that the gay, or The noble was there; O'er the porch the wild rose, And the woodbine entwined, And the sweet scented jessamine, Wav'd in the wind; Yet dearer to me Than proud turret or dome, Were the halls of my fathers, The old house at home. [&] Verse the Third. But now the old house, Is no dwelling for me, The home of the stranger, Henceforth it shall be; And ne'er will I view it, Nor rove as a guest, O'er the evergreen fields, Which my father possess'd Yet still in my slumber, Sweet visions will come, Of the days that are passed, And the old house at home.
[n.d. c.1860.]
Pen and ink music and sketches with added hand-colour; two sheets laid on board. Board 342 x 280mm (13½ x 11"). Laid on board.
Verse two and three of 'The Old House at Home', the 19th century ballad written by Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839). The song came to the public attention after being set to music by Edward Loder and first appeared in his 1838 opera 'Francis the First'. The music has been handwritten and beautifully decorated.
[Ref: 30450] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Melchisedec Bristle. Written by J.G. Maxwell.
Publish'd 1.st Sep.t 1798, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Etched music sheet with hand colours, sheet 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed to plate.
A songsheet for 'Melchisedec Bristle' written by J.G. Maxwell. A man standing on a chair holding forth to five others in the interior of a barber's shop. Jewish interest.
[Ref: 60508] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Six solos for a Violin & Bass Humbly Dedicated to Crisp. Molineux Esq.r Composed by By Lewis Borghi.]
Pub.d Janry 20th 1783 by M.r Borghi No 5 John Street Oxford Street.
Rare etching, scratched letter proof before title. 305 x 230mm (12 x 9") Small margins.
The title page for a book of music by Luigi Borghi (c.1745-c.1806), an Italian violinist and composer who lived in London from the 1770s. He played in the orchestra of the King's Theatre from 1783 to 1785, and was leader of the second violins in the Handel Commemoration at Westminster Abbey in 1784.
De Vesme: 1868; ii/iv.
[Ref: 51271] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Six Overtes In Four Parts, With Hautboys And French Horns Ad Libitum, Calculated For Small Or Great Concerts; Most Humbly Dedicated To His Grace The Duke Of Dorset, Ambassador From His Britannic Majesty To The Court Of Versailles, By Lewis Borghi.
London. Printed for the Author, and sold at his House, No.5, John Street, Great Portland Street, (where may be had all his former Works.) at T. Skillern's No.17, St. Martin's Lane, & all the Music Shops.
Publish'd as the Act directs, by Lewis Borghi, April 16. 1787.
Etched titlepage in sepia. In ink on verso: -1- nov 1790. Light soiling.
Title-page of music book of six overtures; four winged figures, seated on clouds, playing music: on the left, one playing the cello; in the centre, another playing the violin; on the right, one playing the organ and the other singing; illustration to 'Six overtures in four parts' by Lewis (Louis) Borghi (London: 1787). Borghi (1772 - 1794; fl.) was a composer and violinist; Bartolozzi made prints for his music books. Numbered and priced lower left and right: 'Opa. VI.' and 'Price 15s.'
British Library: 004229937. De Vesme: 1869; iv/iv.
[Ref: 9729] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

My Native Love. The Racoon Hunters. A Life in the Woods for Me.
Walker, Printer, Durham. [n.d., c.1850.]
Letterpress song sheet with woodcut vignette and borders. 250 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼"). Some creasing.
Three ballads about love and wandering. The racoon mentions Old Carolina in America.
National Library of Scotland: https://digital.nls.uk/74893468.
[Ref: 51666] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Musical Bouquet. Negro Songs. Nelly Was A Lady. A Beautiful Ethiopian Melody, Composed by S.C. Foster.
London: Musical Bouquet Office, 192 High Holborn; & J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row.
Illustrated songsheet. Sheet: 250 x 340mm (9¾ x 13¼").
A songsheet, the song tells the story of the death of a young lady named Nelly who lived is Mississippi.
[Ref: 42646] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

The Death of Nelson.
J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dia.s. [n.d., c.1805.]
Woodcut and letterpress. Sheet 215 x 80mm (8½ x 3¼"). Some creasing, laid on album sheet.
A broadside song sheet, with a ballad by Samuel James Arnold (1774-1852). The woodcut shows Britannia standing before a fleet. ''O'er Nelson's tomb, with silent grief oppress'd...''.
[Ref: 63998] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Grand Conversation on Brave Nelson.
Ryle Co., Printers 2 and 3, Monmouth Court, Bloomsbury (n.d., c.1845].
Woodcut and letterpress. Sheet 230 x 85mm (9 x 3¼"). Short tear, laid on album paper. Text misprinted lower left.
A broadside song sheet, with a ballad celebrating the erection of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square. The woodcut shows a warship before a fort. Anne Ryle (1823-70), sister of printer James Catnach, took over his business in 1841, operating at Ryle & Co from 1845 to the end of the decade, when she sold the business to W.S. Fortey.
[Ref: 63999] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Opera Season. Quadrille by F. Godfrey. On Airs from Favourite Operas.
M. Watson lith.
London: Edwin Ashdown, Hanover Square W. [n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 345 x 260mm (13½ x 10¼"). Damage at top.
The cover of a music sheet, with five roundel scenes. Frederick Godfrey was bandmaster of the Coldtream Guards 1863-1880.
[Ref: 41773] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Paganini's Dream. Fantasia for the Piano Forte, in which is introduced The Dance of the Witches under the Walnut Tree of Benevento [...] Inscribed to Signor Pacini by the author of L'Ecole de Paganini. Price 3s/-
London. Published for the Author & Sold by Z.T. Purday 45 High Holborn and all Music Sellers in Town and Country. [n.d. c.1830].
Lithographic music cover. Sheet 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Paper toned and slightly soiled.
A music song-sheet cover, with a vignette of Niccolo Paganini seated under a tree surrounded by devils and witches.
[Ref: 60555] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Pantomime, the Prize Comic Song, for which the Canterbury Hall premium of £10 was awarded. The poem by J. Vandenburgh, the music arranged by J. Harroway, as sung by Sam Cowell. Nos. 889-90.
The Musical Treasury. London: Davidson, 19 Peter's Hill, Doctors' Commons. [n.d. c.1849.]
Music sheet, pp. 4 with chromolithograph cover. Sheets 350 x 265mm (13¾ x 10½"). Slightly foxed, some tears to edges.
Printed illustrated music sheet cover for 'The Pantomime', words by J. Vandenbergh, music by J. Harroway and sung by Sam Cowell. llustrated with an image of Pantaloon, Columbine, Harlequin and Clown, possibly Joseph Grimaldi's 'Joey' clown.
[Ref: 59637] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Petit Blanc. Chanson créole. Paroles de Mr Boucher de Perthes. Mise en musiques et dédiée a Melle Louise Lecomte, par Auguste Panseron, Professeur à l'Ecole Royale.
Moulin sculpt.
à Paris chez Aulagnier, Professeur et Editeur de Musique, rue de la Paix No. 9.
Illustrated songsheet. Sheet: 250 x 335mm (9¾ x 13"). Creases, foxing and paper tone.
An illustrated songsheet telling the story of a romance between a black woman and a white man.
[Ref: 42644] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Pleasures of Being Too Late. Tune - Mr. and Mrs. Bristle. Punctuality, so says a many, Is one of the best traits in man, But I'll prove, as plain as a penny, It's only a flash in the pan. 'Though it's preached up by fathers & mothers, I'll prove by the words I let fall, That you lose very little – more t'other; In not being punctual at all...A precious good job that I tarried, For she whack'd him the very first night. So I've given you all a fair sample, ('Though there's plenty more still in my pate) Now follow my novel example; There's nothing like being too late. Let your, &c. [Around edges:] Instruments bought, sold or exchanged. Fancy Walking Sticks Toy. Violins, Accordians, Harmonicans & Concertinas sold & repaired.
Printed by T. King, Birmingham, and sold by Mr. Green, at his Music Stall, near the Turnpike, City-Road, and at 27, Featherstone-street, City-road, where an extensive collection of old and new songs, harp and violin str fancy stationery, &c. may be had. [n.d. c.1845.]
Printed letterpress. 153 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Slightly foxed, two tears.
A ballad to the tune of Mr. and Mrs. Bristle.
[Ref: 21022] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Polichinelle (or The Royal Punchinello Quadrilles, Performed by Command at Her Most Gracious Majesty's State Banquet.) Quadrille pour le Forte Paino, par Musard.
London Published only by R. Cocks & Co, 20 Princes St, Hanover Sq.e Music Sellers by Authority to Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria I... [n.d., c.1845.]
Music sheet, 8pp. (disbound), with lithographic title, 4pp. engraved music, 1pp. letterpress ads. Publisher's blindstamp on each sheet. Slight soiling to covers; 'Keith Prowse' collection blind stamp on cover
[Ref: 60549] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Celebrated Polka Dances.
Endicott's Lith.y N.Y.
New York, Published by Firth & Hall 4 Franklin Sq and Firth, Hall & Pond 239, Broadway. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1844, by S.C. Jollee in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Southern District of N. York.
Lithograph and 3pp. sheet music, each sheet 330 x 260mm (13 x 10¼").
Music for 'The Celebrated Redowa Polka' composed by Camille Schubert, with note explaining that of the various versions danced, that of Fanny Cerrito and Arthur St Leon was generally considered the best. The image of two dancers on the front cover probably depicts Cerrito and St Leon performing the dance.
[Ref: 43322] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Commence Ye Darkies All. The New and Popular Negro Ballad. Negro Musical Bouquet Songs.
London: Musical Bouquet Office, 192, High Holborn: & J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row.
Frontis and music sheet. Sheet: 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾").
A music sheet from a series of music sheets by the Negro Musical Bouquet Songs.
[Ref: 46062] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Praise of Bacchus. The Musick by M.r Corelli. (16) [On Reverse] The Lovers first Address (15).
Hen: Roberts fecit.
[1739]
Engraving, sheet 230 x 135mm (9 x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate top and right.
From Henry Robert's, 'Calliope or English Harmony, A Collection of the most Celebrated English and Scots Songs Neatly Engrav'd and Embelish'd with designs adapted to the Subject of each Song, taken from the Compositions of the Best Masters, in the most Correct Manner, with the thorough Bass and Transpositions for the Flute [recorder] (proper for all Teachers, Scholars and Lovers of Musick), Printed on a fine Paper, on each side which renders the Undertaking more compleat than any other thing of the kind ever Publish'd.' Music, words and flute accompaniment. Headpiece illustration of Bacchus being held in the air by two satyrs with two children and an adult couple standing round them.
[Ref: 61936] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

In Praise of Burgundy. By M.r Tho.s Phillips. (109) [On Reverse] The Miller of Mansfield. (110)
H. Roberts Sculp.
[1739]
Engraving, sheet 230 x 135mm (9 x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate top and left.
From Henry Robert's, 'Calliope or English Harmony, A Collection of the most Celebrated English and Scots Songs Neatly Engrav'd and Embelish'd with designs adapted to the Subject of each Song, taken from the Compositions of the Best Masters, in the most Correct Manner, with the thorough Bass and Transpositions for the Flute [recorder] (proper for all Teachers, Scholars and Lovers of Musick), Printed on a fine Paper, on each side which renders the Undertaking more compleat than any other thing of the kind ever Publish'd.' Music, words and flute accompaniment. Headpiece illustration of a group of six men sitting in the countryside round a table drinking wine with a servant kneeling on the ground filling a carafe. An extremely rare image of Burgundian drinking
[Ref: 61937] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Punch and Judy. Quadrille by H.S. Roberts
13pp sheet music with chromolithograph cover, sheets 330 x 240mm (13 x 9½"). Trimmed at bottom & top.
Suite of piano music with cover showing a Punch and Judy show.
[Ref: 44124] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Raging Canal. A Comic Song, Written and Sung by that Most Celebrated Comic Singer, P.Morris, And dedicated to his friends in his native city, New York.
Fleetwood lith.
New York, Published by C.G.Christman, 404, Pearl-st. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1844 by C.G.Christman in the Clerk's office in the district court for the southern district of New York.
Lithograph. Sheet 340 x 250mm, 13½ x 9¾". Old ink mss, small chip in bottom edge, some faint staining.
Song sheet cover for one of the most famous songs about about life on the Erie Canal, comically describing how dangerous it was.
We have located a facsimile of the words and music.
[Ref: 11855] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

Music Bouquet. Rule Britannia! The National Song and Chorus, Performed by Julien's Band; by the French Guides' Band; and by the Bands of the Grenadier & Coldstream Guards.
With all the correct words, Composed by D.r Arne.
London, Musical Bouquet Office , 192, High Holborn; & J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row.
Frontis and music sheet. Sheet: 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Light foxing. Part of music missing bottom right.
A song sheet for Rule Britannia, the frontis shows the figure of Britannia flanked by a sailor and a soldier.
[Ref: 46061] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Charms of Dishabille, or New Tunbridge Wells at Islington.
For the Flute. The Words by Mr. Lockman, Written in 1733. To ye Tune of ye Black Joke. G. Bickham junr. Sculp.
[n.d., c.1745.]
Engraved musical score lettered with lyrics, three verses of lyrics below, etched illustration above, plate 320 x 200mm (12¾ x 7¾"), with margins. Glued to backing sheet on borders at edges. Fold. Some light foxing.
An ode to sartorial variety at the pleasure gardens at Sadler's Wells (sometimes called 'New Tunbridge Wells') in Islington, London. The author of the lyrics remarks upon the array of fashions sported by a socially mixed clientele. During the 18th century the initial exclusiveness of Sadler's Wells declined along with the quality of the clientele, who were described as 'vermin trained up to the gallows' by a contemporary, while, by 1711, Sadler's Wells was characterized as 'a nursery of debauchery'. By George Bickham the Younger (c. 1706 - 1771), printmaker and publisher, and son of George Bickham the Elder. From a book of sheet music. Plate inscribed '42' upper right.
[Ref: 62004] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Savourneen Deelish. Oh! the moment was sad when my love and I parted Savourneen deelish, Eileen Oge! [...]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Ink mss. Sheet 255 x 220mm (10 x 8¾"). Holes in edges, laid on album paper.
A careful calligraphic transcript of the song 'Savourneen Deelish' (the faithful sweetheart), lyrics by George Colman, the Younger (1762-1836), manager of the Little Theatre, Drury Lane, set to an older music by John O'Keefe. The song first appeared in 1791 in the opera 'The Surrender of Calais' by Colman and Samuel Arnold.
[Ref: 56362] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

R. Kirkland Family, Grocer, Tea and Provision Dealer, Smallthorne. [Tea paper bearing - Scotch National Song. -- 'Hail to the Chief'. and vignette scene]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured wood engraving. Printed area 200 x 170mm. Some creasing.
The first and third verses of Sir Walter Scott's narrative poem 'Lady of the Lake', published 1810. The verse is overprinted with an advert for 'R.Kirkland, Family Grocer,'. Set to music at that time by James Sanderson (1769-1841), it was adopted as music to announce the U.S. President in 1845, with new lyrics by Albert Gamse.
[Ref: 7083] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

The Slave Sale, or Come, Who Bids? Composed by Henry Russell for his New Entertainment "Negro Life"_Words by Angus B. Reach Esq.
Illustrated songsheet. Sheet: 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Surface dirt and tears to edges.
[Ref: 42763] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[Songsheet.] Second Edition Just Published, Price Two Shillings. The Song of the Petrel Sung by Miss Poole, Miss Messent, Miss Lowe, & Mr. Norman. Composed and dedicated by permission to the Lady Jane Peel by A.H. Dendy.
London: J.C. Jones, 21, B. Soho Square;_Brighton: Fred.k Wright, Royal Colonnade; and all Music Sellers.
Letterpress. Sheet: 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½''). Manuscript in top edge.
A songsheet for 'The Song of the Petrel' which tells the tail of a petrel and the sights she has seen upon the sea. Dedicated to Lady Jane Peel (1800-1861), wife of Laurence Peel and daughter of the 4th Duke of Richmond.
[Ref: 48941] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Song of the Redeemed Lord. [&] The Believer's Support in the Faithfullness of God.
[T. Adams]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Two letterpress hymn sheets, laid on album paper with an engraving of 'Antient Lyres'. Album sheet 330 x 170mm (13 x 6¾"). Sheets trimmed.
[Ref: 58958] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Chansonnette Ecrite sous la dictée du Magister de Saint-Ouen, à la Fête donnée, le 30 Août 1818, par M. le Colonel Ternaux, pour célébrer la fête du Roi et l'inauguration de la statue de Henri IV, en présence de M. le Maréchal Duc de Reggio.
[1818]
Songsheet, 4pp. letterpress. 255 x 195mm (10 x 7¾"). Some creasing, staining on last page.
A song commissioned for the inauguration ceremony for the equestrian statue of Henri IV by the Pont Neuf in Paris, replacing the 1614 original destroyed in the Revolution.
[Ref: 52002] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Conversation Between the Monument and St. Paul's The Celebrated Comic Chant Sung by Mr Fitzwilliam, At the City Festivals, &c. &c. Written by Tho.s Hudson, And arranged by J. Blewitt.
M. Gauci lith. Printed by Engelmann, Graf Coindet & Co.
Ent. Sta. Hall. London Published by Clementi, Collard & Collard, 26, Cheapside. Price 2-. [n.d., c.1830.]
Songsheet. Sheet: 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾").
A songsheet with cover by Gauci showing the dome of St Pauls and the Monument having a conversation.
[Ref: 47606] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

A Hymn to be Sung by the Charity Children of St Saviour, Southwark, On Christmas Day, 1822. Behold to us a Child is Born...
[n.d., 1822.]
Letterpress. Sheet 240 x 150mm (9½ x 6"). Old ink mss.
A songsheet, used to record statistics, including 'Consumption of Barley annually'.
[Ref: 42360] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Stanzas for Music.-From the Hebrew. Woman's Love. Set me a seal upon they heart, A signet ring upon thy arm, From which you will, oh! never part, To cause my ardent love alarm...Invitation to the Country. I'll point thee where the mountain glows With hues or early dawn, And where the opening valley shews...All in out gates they wait for you, To greet thee, my adored.
H.S.
[n.d. c.1860.]
Letterpress, rare. 132 x 102mm. 5¼ x 4". Some spotting.
Verses of poetry for music, the former set to music by Tallis and Fairhurst.
[Ref: 19228] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Submissive Admirer. Set by Mr Handel. To the R.t Hon.ble the Earl Cowper, These Four Plates are humbly inscrib'd.
[Etched by George Bickham.]
[n.d., c.1737-9.]
Etched music sheet. 325 x 200mm (12¾ x 8"). Narrow margins top and bottom, original binding folds,
A music sheet with a headpiece of a courting couple. From George Bickham's 'The Musical Entertainer'.
[Ref: 58701] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Just as the Sun went down. A Pathetic Incident of War Time. Words and Music by Lyn Udall. Sung with Great Success by Miss Nellie Gannon.
H.G. Banks Lith.
Charles Sheard & C.o, Anglo-American Music Publishers, 196, Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C. New York: M. Witmark & Son, 8 West 29.th S.t [n.d., c.1900].
Lithograph. Sheet 355 x 250mm (14 x 10¼") Small tears in edges.
The music sheet cover showing two British soldiers lying by a field gun under a shredded Union flag, looking at lockets with their sweethearts' hair as they die. The pith helmet suggests the scene is during the Second Boer War (1899-1902). Lyn Udall (1870-1963) was an American composer. 'Just as the Sun Went Down' was first published in 1898, with a cover relating to the Spanish-American War. The song was successful: other cover illustrations show the tanks and biplanes of the First World War.
[Ref: 62917] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Susannah Don't You Cry For Me.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Letterpress songsheet with the Britsh shield woodengraving. Sheet: 250 x 180mm (9¾ x 7''). Creasing.
A song sheet for the famous American song 'Susannah Don't You Cry For Me' written by minstrel singer Stephen Foster (1826-1846) and published in 1848 which went on to become one of the most popular American songs ever written. Many of the lyrics have now been rewritten to replace several uses of the word 'nigger'.
[Ref: 48760] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

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Terry O'Rann, & the Lasses of Derry, The Original Irish Song Written by Mr. Hudson, & Sung by him & Mr. Fitzwilliam. The Music by J. Blewitt.
Ent.d Stat. Hall. Price 2/-.
Publish'd by Tho.s Hudson, 6. Museum S.t Purday Holborn Purday St. Pauls Church Yard, & Monro & May Holborn Bars &c.
Songsheet with etched illustration, 4 sheets. Sheet: 360 x 260mm (14 x 10''), with very large margins. Paper tone and surface dirt.
Songsheet for a comic song about an Irishman named Terry O'Rann who enjoys drinking and the 'Lasses of Derry'.
[Ref: 50651] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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