Title: Famous Songs. "Where Are You Going to My Pretty Maid?", "for Auld Lang Syne", "Home Sweet Home", and "Sally in Our Alley". (4 Volumes).
Description: London: Castell Brothers / New York: E. & J.B. Young & Co. circa [1889]. [1889]. RARE IN THE ORIGINAL PICTORIAL BOX - Four books laid into a pictorial box. 32mo. 3 inches high by 4-1/4 inches wide. Each of the four volumes are bound in color illustrated yellow boards backed with blue cloth spines. They are laid into the original pictorial box with color chromolithographic vignettes representing each of the songs on the front cover. The vignette for "Home Sweet Home" is centered at the top with that representing the song "For Auld Lang Syne" to it's left, "Sally in Our Alley" at bottom left and that illustrating the song "Where are you going to my Pretty Maid?" at right. The box cover is stained and rubbed with the sides splitting along the edges and corners. One of the box's sides has been repaired internatlly. There are 8 pages, plus endpapers, in each volume. The set is illustrated with a total of 16 full-page chromolithographs (4 plates per volume). There is some very minor foxing and toning to the pages and the endpapers and pastedowns are darkened. The books are in overall very good condition.
RARE in the original box.
The first line of the song titled "Where are you going to my Pretty Maid?" is identical to it's title. That of the classic song titled "Auld Lang Syne" is "Should auld acquaintance be forgot". "Home, Sweet Home" repeats the title followed by "Mid pleasures and palaces, though we may roam, Be it ever so humble there's no place like home". The song "Sally in our Alley" begins with the lines "Of all the girls that are so smart, There's none like pretty Sally.."
The books were designed in England and printed in Germany. Good .
Keywords: CHILDREN'S BOOKS; ILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATIONS; FAMOUS SONGS; NINETEENTH CENTURY; CASTELL BROTHERS; E. & J.B. YOUNG & COMPANY; 19TH CENTURY; RARE IN BOX; ORIGINAL PICTORIAL BOX; SET; WHERE ARE YOU GOING MY PRETTY MAID?; FOR AULD LAND SYNE; HOME,
- Book number: 37385
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