Lot 205: [SHEET MUSIC]. -- RUSSELL, Henry (1813-1900). The Ivy Green. A Ballad. The Words written by "Boz". The Music Composed and respectfully Dedicated to Lynde M. Walter Esq, of Boston. New York: James L. Hewitt & Co. [1838].

[SHEET MUSIC]. -- RUSSELL, Henry (1813-1900). The Ivy Green. A Ballad. The Words written by "Boz". The Music Composed and respectfully Dedicated to Lynde M. Walter Esq, of Boston. New York: James L. Hewitt & Co. [1838].

2o (322 x 240 mm). 8 pages engraved sheet music. (Lightly browned, a bit dustsoiled, chipped along lefthand edges.); quarter red morocco folding box. Provenance: Near contemporary ink pagination to top corners; Kenyon Starling (bookplate in box).

FIRST EDITION, set to music by American composer Henry Russell of a poem written by the clergyman at "Dingley Dell" in Pickwick. Although originally issued as unbound sheets these, together with item below, have been extracted from a bound volume. Yale/Gimbel C6.

[With:]

HULLAH, John Pyke (1812-1884). Autumn Leaves. Ballad, Sung by Mr. F. Seguin. In the Opera of The Village Coquettes. The Words by Boz. The Music by John Hullah. New York: Millet's Music Saloon [N.d., ca 1840-1859]. 2o (322 x 239). 6 pages engraved sheet music. (Lightly browned, a few pale stains, chipped along lefthand edges.) First published as sheet music by Cramer, Addison & Beale, London, [?1836].

[And with:] Sheet music for twenty-two other songs and ballads inspired by Dickens' works, many extracted from bound volumes:

BLOCKLEY, John (Composer). -- YOUNG, Charlotte (Lyricist). Household Words. Companion to Hearts and Home. London: Duff & Hodgson [ca 1860]. 8pp. (lightly dustsoiled, one or two spots). Provenance: Miss Lizzie Fisher, Manchester (contemporary inscription). Blockley also composed music to Floating Away inspired by Little Dorrit. -- The Chimes Quadrille. Composed for the Musical Bouquet. London: J. Bingley and W. Strange [ca 1844]. 2 pages engraved sheet music. Elaborate etching by Alfred Ashley on p. [1]. (Lightly browned.) Yale/Gimbel H751. -- COOTE, Chas. Junr.(Composer). No Thoroughfare Galop. As performed nightly at the Adelphi Theatre. London: Hopwood & Crew [n.d.] 8 pages unbound. Color lithographic front wrapper. -- CROUCH, F. Nicholls (Composer). - CARPENTER, J.E. (Lyricist). The Chimes Song. London: Duff & Hodgson [n.d.] 10 pages engraved sheet music unbound. Lithographic front wrapper (lightly dustsoiled, unevenly browned, a few pale stains). -- GLOVER, Stephen (Composer). -- CARPENTER, Joseph Edwards (Lyricist). What are the Wild Waves Saying, Duet, founded on an incident in the narrative of Dombey and Son. London: Messrs Robert Cocks & Co. [ca 1848]. 12 pages engraved sheet music unbound (removed from a larger volume, lightly browned and dustsoiled). Yale/Gimbel H764. -- JULLIEN, Louis Antoine (Composer). The Cricket Polka. London: Jullien [ca 1844]. 8 pages unbound. Color lithographic front wrapper after A. Crowquill (lightly dustsoiled, spotted). Actually Jullien's celebrated polka No. 11. Jullien's music was also published as The Chines: Jullien's Chimes Quadrilles. -- LANCELOTT, F. (Composer). The Chimes Quadrille. London: C. Sheard, Musical Bouquet Office [n.d.] 4 pages engraved sheet music, unbound (fold repaired, lightly browned, a bit dustsoiled). -- OAKEY, Henry. The Chimes Quadrilles. From a Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. London: H. Tolkien. [n.d.] 10 pages engraved sheet music unbound. Lithographic front wrapper (outer leaf repaired, lightly dustsoiled, some spotting, some minor tears). With another copy (heavily repaired). -- THOMAS, J.R. (Composer) - FARNIE, H.B. (Lyricist). "Little Em'ly!" Song. From Charles Dickens's Favorite Novel "David Copperfield". London: Metler & Co. [n.d.] 8 pages unbound. Color lithographic front wrapper (outer fold repaired, lightly dustsoiled). - RUSSELL, Henry (1813-1900). The Ivy Green. A Ballad. The Words written by "Boz". The Music Composed and respectfully Dedicated to Lynde M. Walter Esq, of Boston. New York: James L. Hewitt & Co. [1838]. 8 pages engraved sheet music unbound (lightly browned, a bit spotted, edges chipped). FIRST EDITION. And ten other 19th-century editions of the same piece issued by various publishers, some with lithographic front wrappers (condition varies). -- VAN NOORDEN, P. E. (Arranger). Little Dorrit's Schottische. London: G. Emery & Co. [n.d.]. 6 pages unbound. Color lithographic front cover (outer fold repaired, lightly dustsoiled, one or two spots). (24)