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Autograph Book - Scottish interest.
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Date of Publication: 1900
Stock Code: 3619
Small square octavo. Red roan with geometric blind-stamped decoration to boards. All edges gilt; primrose yellow endpapers. An approx 280 pp. album (the majority of the pages blank) with over 100 signatures of late 19th/early 20th century figures from the musical world including violinists, pianists, opera singers, conductors, composers and a complete set of St George's Double Quartet of Edinburgh, together with their organist and conductor. Some of the signatures are written directly to the page, grouped in categories such as "Tenors" and "Conductors & Composers", some pasted in and others laid in. Some of the insertions include attached letters and notes, and several have been placed in labelled envelopes in a later hand. Boards rubbed to edges and the spine is absent; endpapers lightly soiled. The album was compiled by Col. David Boyle Hope of Edinburgh and his signature is the first in the album, dated 1863; the latest are those of the Double Quartet dated 1918. Some entries include a little musical notation; Polish violinist and composer Isidor Lotto, Irish composer and accompanist Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty and the British music critic John Alexander Fuller Maitland all appear twice. Other notable luminaries of the musical world include John Pyke Hullah, English composer and pioneer in the field of musical education, Alfred Mellon, conductor of the popular Promenade concerts and the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Jenny Lind, the celebrated opera singer known as "the Swedish Nightingale", under her married name of Goldschmidt. Col Hope was Secretary of the Scottish Vocal Music Association and he no doubt met many of the artists herein. £400.00