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Bound collection of mid-Victorian sheet music for voice and piano
1880459166London : various publishers Duff & Hodgson Ashdown & Parry Brewer & Co. Hopwood & Crew J.H. Jewell et al 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy only in contemporary half black leather over brown buckram boards now slightly scuffed and dust-dulled. Endbands joints and corners heavily rubbed. Title panel lacking from spine with gilt-blocked title remaining legible. Both hinges broken with text block loose in its covers but internal binding remaining strong. The text is in very good condition overall with only the faint marginal foxing and dust-dulling expected of age. Remains a very serviceable copy. Date is suggested. Physical description: 1 volume variously paginated : music ; 35 cm. Notes: Spine title: ""Music."" A bound collection of nineteenth-century sheet music primarily for voice and piano or solo piano. The first five pieces are: 1. Samuel Lover. The fisherman's daughter : ballad London : Duff & Hodgson ca. 1856 — 2. Sydney Smith. Golden bells : caprice de concert pour piano à quatre mains London : Ashdown & Parry ca. 1870 — 3. Carl Faust. Violetta : polka mazurka : pour piano London : Brewer & Co. not before 1857 — 4. F. Musgrave. The skedaddle galop London : Hopwood & Crew between 1870 and 1880 — 5. W.F. Greenwell. The Pilot's Polka Fifth edition. London : J.H. Jewell n.d. Followed by numerous additional pieces of similar character. Subjects: Songs with piano - 19th century - Scores. Piano music 4 hands - 19th century - Scores. Piano music - 19th century - Scores. Dance music - 19th century - Scores. Polkas - Scores. Galops - Scores. Sheet music - Great Britain - 19th century - Specimens. London : various publishers ( Duff & Hodgson, Ashdown & Parry, Brewer & Co., Hopwood & Crew, J.H. Jewell, [et al] ) hardcover
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