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Price: US$73.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 54 pp., errata slip; original gilt & black stamped illustrated green cloth (hardcover), a.e.g., spine frayed, edges rubbed, small tear to the center of the rear cover, else good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.
Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$76.85 + shipping
Description: Size: Folio. 54pp. + errata slip. Publisher's gilt pictorial cloth (head and foot of backstrip a little rubbed, contents detached), a.e.g. The cover has the subtitle Or the Loves of the Wrens which was the original subtitle. Arthur Sullivan received the idea of this song cycle from Sir George Grove in 1866, and it was originally intended to have Sir John Millais illustrate the volume. Unfortunately Tennyson procrastinated and even wanted to stop publication, believing his poems to be too light and thus potentially damaging to his reputation. He allegedly offered the young composer £500 to drop the idea, and, in the ensuing period, Millais dispersed his original designs. Millais was later to paint the composer in 1888. The preface by Tennyson reads: Four years ago Mr. Sullivan requested me to write a little song-cycle, German fashion, for him to exercise his art upon. He had been very successful in setting such old songs as Orpheus with his lute, and I drest up for him, partly in the old style, a puppet, whose almost only merit is, perhaps, that it can dance to Mr. Sullivans instrument. I am sorry that my four-year-old puppet should have to dance at all in the dark shadow of these days [a reference to the Franco Prussian war]; but the music is now completed, and I am bound by my promise. The volume contains twelve songs with piano accompaniment. First edition of a song-cycle by Arthur Sullivan to words by Tennyson.
Seller: Colin Coleman Music, Stewkley, United Kingdom
Price: US$102.47 + shipping
Description: Size: Folio. 54pp. + errata slip. Publisher's gilt pictorial green cloth (edgs a little bumped and rubbed), a.e.g. The cover has the subtitle Or the Loves of the Wrens which was the original subtitle. Arthur Sullivan received the idea of this song cycle from Sir George Grove in 1866, and it was originally intended to have Sir John Millais illustrate the volume. Unfortunately Tennyson procrastinated and even wanted to stop publication, believing his poems to be too light and thus potentially damaging to his reputation. He allegedly offered the young composer £500 to drop the idea, and, in the ensuing period, Millais dispersed his original designs. Millais was later to paint the composer in 1888. The preface by Tennyson reads: Four years ago Mr. Sullivan requested me to write a little song-cycle, German fashion, for him to exercise his art upon. He had been very successful in setting such old songs as Orpheus with his lute, and I drest up for him, partly in the old style, a puppet, whose almost only merit is, perhaps, that it can dance to Mr. Sullivans instrument. I am sorry that my four-year-old puppet should have to dance at all in the dark shadow of these days [a reference to the Franco Prussian war]; but the music is now completed, and I am bound by my promise. The volume contains twelve songs with piano accompaniment. First edition of a song-cycle by Arthur Sullivan to words by Tennyson.
Seller: Colin Coleman Music, Stewkley, United Kingdom
Price: US$110.15 + shipping
Description: Folio (32x25 cms) 54pp of music, text pages unpaginated. Pictorial green cloth, gilt, a.e.g. Damp staining to boards. Some occasional browning but otherwise internally very good.
Seller: Travis & Emery Music Bookshop ABA, London, United Kingdom
Alfred Tennyson. The window or the loves of the wrens. Strahan & co, 56 Ludgate hill London, 1871.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Music by Arthur Sullivan, words/songs of Alfred Tennyson.Blue boards embossed in gold.Tipped in sheet on front inside cover " the shortest day", St. Thomas' day 1870. 11 scores with words. Bright clean condition , with little sign of usage.
Seller: Boulevard Bookshop and Thai Cafe, Hastings, United Kingdom