Lot 252
Music hall, popular music, patriotic songs
Collection of illustrated sheet-music pamphlets, 19th & 20th century
Auction: Other Properties | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 63 to 255
Description
Over 350 decorative music publications, all in pictorial wrappers (lithographic or photographic), each approx. 35 x 25cm, many reflecting the interesting social history and fashions of the times in which they were printed. Some covers lacking the sheet music, some with ownership inscriptions and/or price, a few with short tears to edges. Titles include:
Military Campaigns and Regiments
Wellington at Waterloo and The Emperor Napoleon's March Across the Alps by Franz Schubert (n.d., 3rd edition); The Guards March. Music dedicated to Field Marshal HRH The Prince Albert; The Coldstream Guards March, composed & inscribed to Colonel HRH The Prince of Wales; The Guards Waltz, Grenadier Guards; India: Madras Volunteer Guards Polka; In Honor of the Presentation of Colors, H. J. Kouwen, The British Zouaves, and Quadrille, Polka, and Galop. Composed and Dedicated to Colonel D'Arcy and The Officers of the 3rd West India Regiment (Zouaves);
World Wars I and II
The Fight of the Bomber B-17; Wipers, The March Song of The Ypres League WW1; ‘The Marching Anthem of the Battle Fields of Europe' - It’s a Long Way to Tipperary; Tommies Tunes, 1914-1918; Run, rabbit, run!; We'll meet again; There'll always be an England; Wish me luck (as you wave me goodbye), with image of Gracie Fields on cover; Waltzing Matilda; and further morale boosting songs by Noel Coward, Annette Mills and others (approx. 58);
Victorian and Edwardian Cross-Dressing - ‘Male Impersonators’
A Bicycle Made for Two by Daisy Bell; Ship Ahoy! (All the nice girls love a sailor); and other popular music hall songs with women artists dressed in ‘male’ attire - top hat and tails, admiral's uniform et al.
Black Performers and Minstrelsy
Negro Melody; Little Black Me; Uncle Ned; The Popular Negro Ballad Minstrels; Chocolate Soldier from the U.S.A.; The Soldier Boy from Caroline (approx. 46);
(350+)