Lot 245
Musicians and Composers, 1900s-1950s
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 6 May 2015 at 12:00 BST
Description
38 signed photographs and programme clippings of musicians and composers (some signatures on slips of paper), including: Eugène Ysäye, Jan Kubelik, Fritz Kreisler, Saint-Saëns, Joseph Joachim, Pablo de Sarasate, Charles Hallé, John McCormack, Adelina Patti, Nellie Melba, Joseph O'Mara, Luisa Tetrazzini, John Philip Sousa, Alfred Cortot, Vaughan Williams, Enrico Caruso, and others; a range of unsigned photographs and prints of musicians and composers; a collection of clipped signatures and signed cards by Albert Coates, Hariet Cohen, Myra Hess, Guido Cantelli, John Barbirolli, Harold Ferguson, Vaughan Williams and others; Letter signed Folie[?]: "At two of the [drawing of clock] today I am with you I am big as life and twice as natural" [from Alice Through the Looking Glass]; Postcard signed John Stainer to W? A. Jefferson Esq., dated 1883, explaining that Mr Stainer "cannot possibly undertake to compose anything" for Jefferson's book; in rubbed morocco album, c.39 x 26cm, spine lacking