Music & Song

Illustrations from Gilbert’s drawings, x & 268 pp, yellow-brown cloth with pictorial designs on front cover and spine, spine faded and a little marked (see picture), corners of covers bumped and have clearly been damp at some time in the past, spine rubbed at extremities, endpapers browned, but contents good and binding sound, altogether a good usable copy, Routledge, undated (the original publication date was 1890, but this copy could be any date up to the First World War)

25.9 x 17.3 cm, 820g, no ISBN

An anthology of the “best of” the songs from the operettas, up to and including “The Gondoliers” of 1889, arranged for single voice (with a few duets) and piano – see specimen page below.

Not exactly scarce, but long out of print.