Author: Disher, Maurice Willson
Title: Victorian Song from Dive to Drawing Room
Description: London: Phoenix House Ltd. (1955). (1955). London: Phoenix House Ltd. (1955). (1955). Very good. - 8vo, green cloth (lightly bumped; head of spine lightly rubbed) titled in gilt. 256 pp. (owner's bookplate on front pastedown with dw flaps tipped in). B&W frontispiece & B&W illustrations from title pages of ballads & piano pieces. Lacks dw; very good.

First edition.

The book discusses the infinite varieties of Victorian song and the picture of Victorian life it presented "in drawing-room and parlour, tap-room and barrack-room, opera-house and theatre, music-hall and nursery, concert hall and Sunday school, on board ship and by the emigrant in exile." . Very good .

Keywords: MUSIC; SONGS; VICTORIAN SONGS; VICTORIANS; ENGLISH; BRITISH; ILLUSTRATED; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

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