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The Amour. Set by M.r Digard. To her Grace the Dutchess of Queensberry these Four Plates are humbly inscrib'd.
G. Bickham jun.r Sculp.
Published According to Act of Parliament, August 5, 1737.
Etching, first sheet only. 325 x 200mm (12¾ x 8"). Mounted in album paper at edges.
A music sheet with a headpiece of a courting couple, composed by David Digard (d.1745). From George Bickham's 'The Musical Entertainer'.
[Ref: 63589] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
[Songsheet] The Banks of the Dee. The Jolly Skiffsman. I'm Going Ober de Mountain.
Walker, Printer, Durham.
Letterpress with woodcut vignette and border. Sheet 255 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Tear bottom centre repaired.
The lyrics to three popular ballads. 'The Banks of the Dee' was written by John Tait in 1775, when a friend left Scotland to join the British forces in America in the runup to the American War of Independence. When Robert Burns complained that nightingales sing from a bush, never a tree, Tait changed the lyrics from 'nightingale sung' to 'pigeon coo'd'. 'I'm Going ober de Mountain' was written by Daniel Decatur Emmett (1815-1904), founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition, the Virginia Minstrels.
[Ref: 63640] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
The Grand Dramatic Romance of Blue-Beard or Female Curiosity, As now performing at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane with unbounded Applause, the words by George Coleman the Younger, Esq.r, the Music Composed and Selected by Michael Kelly.
London, Sold at Preston's Music Warehouse 97 Strand & at Kelly's Musical Saloon 9 Pall Mall [n.d., c.1798].
Engraved titlepage. 225 x 300mm (8¾ x 11¾"). With ink stamp 'MK' (Michael Kelly's music shop?), large margins (tatty) on 3 sides. In ink at bottom right border J. Hill? Split in image area, tear at top taped, edges chipped, paper soiled. Old ink mss in image, lower inscription area and margin.
The cover of the music to an opera with lyrics by George Coleman the Younger (1762-1836) and music by the famous Irish tenor Michael Kelly (1762-1826). An example of the complete book in the University of Western Ontario has the same 'MK' stamp.
[Ref: 63661] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Christmas 1882. The Sunday Schools. St John's Parish, Detroit, Michigan.
[1882]
Pamphlet, 4pp, 240 x 160mm (9½ x 6¼"), printed in green.
The programme for a Christmas service, with the lyrics of ten carols. American interest.
[Ref: 63756] £60.00
The Tyrolese Family Rainer. Songsters of Nature!!
[Drawn on Stone by E. Wilson. Vowles Litho.]
[Printed & Pubd. 1827, by S. Vowles, 3, St. Michaels Alley, Cornhill.]
Lithograph with added hand colour. Sheet 220 x 280mm (x 11". Skillfully trimmed round the family and glued to backing paper. Some brown spots.
The Rainer Family (Felix, Anton, Maria, Joseph & Franz) specialised in vocal harmonies, including yodelling. They are credited with the premier performance of 'Silent Night' in the Tyrol in 1819. Turning professional they toured extensively from 1824, visiting Britain in 1827 and performing for George the Fourth, who presented these costumes to them, before touring the United States in the 1830s. They disbanded in 1838.
[Ref: 63742] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
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