Title from item., Song sheet with an etching at top showing Britannia and Prince Leopold mourning at the tomb of Princess Charlotte. Music on two staves with interlinear words. Additional three stanzas in three columns below. Text and music within mourning border. Opening words: Brittannia [sic], mourn! your glorys hope ... "Pr. 1/.", and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published at No. 91, Aldersgate Street
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817 and Léopold |b I, |c King of the Belgians, |d 1790-1865,
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Grief, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
You've been one fellow Bill and Times are hard, and I don't know what I'm going to do
Description:
For voice and piano., Title page in yellow and black illustrated with drawing signed "Starmer" of two African American men and photograph of Clarice Vance., and Publisher's advertisements on page [2] and unnumbered page at end.
BEIN JWJ -V3 C674 In1: Stamp: Masonic Temple, Chicago., For medium voice and piano., "Sung with great success by Bob Cole ... in 'A trip to Coontown.'", First line of text: In South Africa, there a colony lies, called Dahomey., Title p. illustration includes photographic port. of Bob Cole., and Advertisements on p. [2] (1st count) and p. [1-3] at end.
Publisher:
Howley, Haviland & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
Benin
Subject (Topic):
Songs (Medium voice) with piano, Popular music, and Black people
A negro footman stands with a coin in his hand as he sings. Behind him a lawyer sits at his desk accepting a bag of money from his client; the lawyer's young assistant sits on the other side of the slanted desk. Through the open door to the street, a gentleman strolls in front of an apothecy's shop door, above which can be seen a mortar and pestle
Description:
Title engraved above image, Plate numbered '394' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whttle series of Drolls., and Six stanzas in three columns engraved below image: Great way off at sea, where at home I've been-ee, Buckra man fetch me, from de coast of Guinea; Christian massa pray, he call me hathen doggy ...
Publisher:
Publish'd May 20th, 1805, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Verse begins: "Maria was handsome, remarkable, fair,"., In one column, imprint follows title and precedes the text., Davenport at this address between 1800 and 1802?. See Maxted, I. London book trades, 1775-1800., Mounted on leaf 49. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Davenport, 6 George's-court, St. Johns-lane, West-Smithfield, London
Caption title., Date based on publisher J. Jennings's activity dates. See: Todd, W.B. Directory of printers and others in allied trades, London & vicinity, 1800-1840, page 107., In one column with a woodcut above the title., A slip song., In verse., First line: I sigh and lament me in vain ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Jennings, No. 15, Water Lane, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587.
For medium voice and piano., First line: De railroad bridge is a sad song in de air., Illustrated title page in brown, black, and white; design by Mordi depicts a Black man, with head thrown back, standing in the foreground; a railroad track winds to a country house in the distance., and Advertisement for "New songs by Jacques Wolfe" (with his portrait and musical excerpts) on p. [6].
Publisher:
Robbins Music Corp
Subject (Name):
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 and Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
Subject (Topic):
Songs (Medium voice) with piano and African Americans
