(Peckham, Joshua [d. 1858]; and Duley, John Henry [1835-1864]).

The Gal in Blue! [Broadside Song Sheet].

Salem, Massachusetts: Joshua Peckham, [between 1852 and 1858]. [1858]. [1858]. - A 9-1/2 inch high by 6-1/2 inch wide broadside song sheet with the lyrics of the minstrel song "The Gal in Blue!" centered beneath the bold title within a formal decorated frame. The lyrics of the three stanzas and chorus, written in dialect, begin "I met a pretty yaller gall, her name I do not know, / I meet her every evening, no matter where I go, / She swings de fancy handkerchief that sparkes like the dew, / You'd know her if you seen her, she's always dressed in blue.." To which the chorus responds "She'll set dis darkey crazy, I don't know what to do, / If I can't get dat pretty gal dat I saw dressed in blue. / She'll set dis darkey crazy, I don't know what to do, / If I don't get dat pretty gal dat I saw dressed in blue." The publisher's credits are centered below the lyrics. The song sheet is toned with some heavy dampstaining. Good. The song sheet is "Published by permission of John H. Duley, of Perham's Opera Troupe". Perham is possibly the same person as Josiah Perham of the "Ethiopian Troupe and Great Burlesque Company", a blackface troupe. Good .

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Book number: 36655

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; SONG SHEET; BROADSIDE; MINSTRELS; MINSTREL SHOW; BLACK STUDIES; AFRICAN-AMERICAN; THE GAL IN BLUE; JOHN HENRY DULEY; PERHAM'S OPERA TROUPE; JOSIAH PERHAM; JOSHUA PECKHAM; RARE; DECORATED BORDERS; EPHEMERA; BLACKFACE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CE

(Rameau, Jean Phillipe; Pizzetti, Ildebrando; Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario; Gui, Vittorio; Serafin, Tullio; Walter, Bruno; et al)

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. 24 Aprile - 4 Giugno / 1935 - XIII. (Program)

Firenze: Grafiche G. Spinelli & C. 1935. 1935. Firenze: Grafiche G. Spinelli & C. 1935. 1935. Very good. - Octavo. Program for the 1935 season of this music festival bound by an owner in three-quarters dark green calf & decorative dark green & tan boards titled in gilt on the spine, with the original printed wrappers bound in. The boards are bumped darkened around the edges with a light stain to the front board. The leather is rubbed. The spine is faded & chipped with a piece out of the head & the top half of the front joint is split. [204] unnumbered pages. Illustrated with a double-page color map of Florence, with portraits & stage designs in color and black & white & with pictorial ads. The inside wraps are lightly foxed, else the program contents are very good.

This music festival presented choral and orchestral music, operas and ballets. Among the works presented in the 1935 season were Rameau's "Castor and Pollux"; Rossini's "Mose"; the ballet "Dafni e Chloe" starring Lorcia and Lifar, with choreography by Fokine and scenery by Bakst; Pizzetti's "Orseolo", Verdi's "Masked Ball" and his "Requiem" with Pinza, Caniglia and Stignani; Mozart's "Il Ratto dal Serraglio" and his "Requiem"; Rino Alessi's play "Savonarola, directed by Jacques Copeau, with incidental music by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco; Bellini's "Norma" and Gluck's "Alceste". Conductors included Vittorio Gui, Tullio Serafin, Bruno Walter and Fernando Previtale. The program notes and synopses are printed in both Italian and English.

Mario Castelnuovo- Tedesco [1895-1968], who became a well-known composer of film music, was considered one of the most significant Italian composers of his generation and was performed by such artists as Gieseking, Heifetz, Piatigorsky and Segovia. Although he was critical of Mussolini's regime, he knew how to take advantage of the opportunities it offered and he wrote the incidental music for "Savonarola" at Mussolini's request. He was a friend both of Carlo and Nello Rosselli, the regime's principal opponents [both assassinated in 1937], and of Alessandro Pavolino, who later became a fanatical fascist leader.

On the inside front cover of the book, the owner has penned an "Operatic Diary" listing 31 operas attended, with theatres, dates, composers and in some cases conductors.

Rare. Very good .

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Book number: 16613

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; MUSIC FESTIVAL; ITALIAN; FLORENCE; MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO. 24 Aprile - 4 Giugno 1935 - XIII; OPERAS; ORCHESTRAL MUSIC; VERDI'S REQUIEM; MOZART'S REQUIEM; PLAY; SAVONAROLA; RINO ALESSI; MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO; RAMEAU; ILDEBRANDO PIZZE

(Zimbalist, Efrem; and Pollain, Rene).

The New Jersey Orchestra, Rene Pollain, Conductor. Season 1929-1930 Third Concert. Soloist Efrem Zimbalist. Orange High School Auditorium. [Original Concert Program Signed by Efrem Zimbalist & Rene Pollain].

New Jersey: [The New Jersey Orchestra], 1930. 1930. ORIGINAL PROGRAM SIGNED BY THE VIOLINIST EFREM ZIMBALIST & THE CONDUCTOR RENE POLLAIN - Quarto, 11-1/8 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide. The original 6-page program for the concert held on Thursday Evening, April 17th, 1930 at the Orange High School Auditorium. Folded vertically across the center and therefore with a heavy crease and with tiny tears to the top and bottom of the folds. The bottom edges of the pages are dampstained. Good. Signed in full by both the conductor Rene Pollain and the violinist Efrem Zimbalist on the front cover. The concert included performances of Beethoven's "Symphony in C Minor", Debussy's "L'Apres-midi d'un Faune", Mendelssohn's "Concerto in E Minor for Violin and Orchestra", and Rimsky-Korsakoff's "Introduction and Cortege des Noces from 'Le Coq d'Or'". The concert violinist and composer Efrem Zimbalist Sr. (1889-1985) was also conductor and director of the Curtis Institute of Music. Born in Russia, Zimbalist was first violin in his father's orchestra by the age of 9. He studied under Leopold Auer at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, winning a gold medal and Rubinstein Prize before graduating in 1907. Zimbalist debuted in Berlin in 1907 and then London before pertofming in the U.S. in 1911. In the 1912 concert marking Leopold Stokowski's first appearance with the London Symphony Orchestra, Zimbalist played the Glazunov Concerto. He began teaching at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music in 1921, becoming its director in 1941. His own compositions include the "American Rhapsody", a tone poem "Daphnis and Chloe", Fantasies on themes from Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Golden Cockerel" and Bizet's "Camen", a composition for viola and piano titled "Sarasateana" and an opera "Landara". Born in France Rene Pollain (1882-1940) directed the orchestra of the municipal theatre in Paris from 1904 to 1914. Pollain came to the U.S. in 1918, becoming assistant conductor for Walter Damrosch at the New York Symphony Orchestra. He conducted the New York Symphony Orchestra at the Chautauqua Festivals of 1919, 1920, and 1921, and the Worcester Festivals of 1922, 1923, & 1924. When the New York Symphony merged with the Philharmonic in 1928, Pollain became first Violist. He held that position until 1935. From 1929 until 1939 he was director of the New Jersey Orchestra. Good .

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Book number: 96768

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; CLASSICAL CONCERT; THE NEW JERSEY ORCHESTRA; ORIGINAL CONCERT PROGRAM; SIGNED; AUTOGRAPH; SIGNATURES; EFREM ZIMBALIST; VIOLINIST; SOLOIST; RENE POLLAIN; CONDUCTOR; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; ORANGE HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM.

(Silber, Irwin, editor; Seeger, Pete; and Silverman, Jerry; associate editors)

Reprints from Sing out!

(New York: Sing Out, Inc. 1959). 1959). (New York: Sing Out, Inc. 1959). 1959). Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial black-and-white wrappers. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped. There is an owner's ink name on the front wrap with a tiny tear to the front edge of the wrap. The rear wrap is darkened around the edges. 66 pages. There is light creasing to the top corners of the first 24 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white vignettes & music staves. Good.

A collection of songs that had appeared in "Sing Out" magazine over the ten years prior to 1959. Good .

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Book number: 20357

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; FOLK MUSIC; FOLKSONGS; SONGS; PERIODICAL; MAGAZINE; SING OUT; PETE SEEGER; JERRY SILVERMAN; IRWIN SILBER; REPRINTS FROM SING OUT.

(Atthill, Catherine; Elphick, Judith; Fitton, Mary; et al; translators)

The Simon and Schuster Book of the Opera: A Complete Reference Guide -- 1597 to the Present

New York: Simon and Schuster, (1978). (1978). New York: Simon and Schuster, (1978). (1978). Very good. - Quarto [10-5/8 inches high by 8 inches wide], cloth, in a dust wrapper. 512 pages, printed in double columns. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Near fine.

First American edition, translated from an Italian edition. Very good .

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Book number: 25706

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; OPERA; HISTORY OF OPERA; REFERENCE; THE SIMON AND SCHUSTER BOOK OF THE OPERA; COMPOSERS; CONDUCTORS; SINGERS; SYNOPSES; CASTS; LIBRETTISTS; PERFORMERS; MUSICIANS; PERFORMANCES; THEATERS; THEATRES; OPERA HOUSES; ILLUSTRATIONS; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION

Albanese, Licia. (1909-2014). Italian-born American operatic soprano.

Program for Ceremony Honoring Italian-Born Operatic Soprano Licia Albanese Signed by Her. Additionally Signed by Metropolitan Opera and Vienna State Opera Star Elizabeth Carter.

Newark, NJ: The Jersey State Opera, circa [1990s]. [1990s]. - Four-page 8-1/2 inch high by 5-1/2 inch wide program printed on blue paper. Signed on the title page "Licia Albanese". Additionally signed "Elizabeth Carter". The top corners of the program are bumped & the bottom corners are lightly creased. There is a light crease to the lower half of the program near the spine with a white smudge affecting the first word of the titling. Very good. Program for "A Holiday Musicale and House-Warming" organized by Opera Music Theatre International and The Jersey State Opera. The two organizations are joined by Leroy Neiman and Celeste Holme "in honoring the world renowned opera diva Lucia Albanese and in celebrating a New Beginning for Grand Opera in New Jersey". The ceremony takes place at The Leroy Neiman Opera/Lab Theatre in Newark Symphony Hall and features "a dedication of the Neiman Wall of Fame, displaying performing arts-oriented works of America's foremost artist." Soprano Elizabeth Carter of the Metropolitan Opera and the Vienna State Opera takes part in the Musicale. Licia Albanese [1909-2014] was an Italian-born American operatic soprano, especially noted for her portrayals of the lyric heroines of Verdi and Puccini. She was a leading artist with the Metropolitan Opera from 1940 to 1966. Very good .

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Book number: 37293

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; OPERA SINGERS; PROGRAM FOR CEREMONY HONORING ITALIAN-BORN OPERATIC SOPRANO LICIA ALBANESE SIGNED BY HER. ADDITIONALLY SIGNED BY METROPOLITAN OPERA AND VIENNA STATE OPERA STAR ELIZABETH CARTER; SIGNED PROGRAM; SIGNATURES; AUTOGRAPHS; JERSEY STATE OP

l'Allemand, Pauline. (1856-1944). American operatic soprano.

Autograph Musical Quote from "Lakme", Perhaps Her Most Significant Role, Penned by American Soprano Pauline L'Allemand.

Philadelphia, PA: 19th November, 1886. 1886. - Nine bars of music penned on a six-sided piece of cream paper with the text written in English below the music. Inscribed "in kind remembrance of Pauline l'Allemand / Philadelphia 19th Nov 86." There is a diagonal crease & a light paper-clip mark near the left side of the paper. Its left edge is darkened. There are 3 light glue marks & surface rubbing to the verso where the paper has been removed from an album. Very good.

Pauline l'Allemand gave the first American performance of Delibes' opera "Lakme" at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia on November 17, 1886. This quotation from the opera, which was sung in English, was thus penned two days after the opening.

Born in Syracuse, NY, Pauline l'Allemand [1856-1944) made her debut as an operatic soprano in Stratton's "The Fairy Grotto" at Wieting Opera House in her home town. She subsequently studied singing in Dresden, Stuttgart and Paris. After successfully touring in Europe, she returned to America, performing "Lakme" in Philadelphia. After her attempt to create her own opera company failed, she retired to a farm in Black River Falls, Wisconsin with her grown son. They lived in extreme poverty and both were eventually pronounced insane and in 1920 were remanded to the Mendota State Hospital for the insane in Madison, Wisconsin. L'Allemand was memorialized in the cult classic "Wisconsin Death Trip" by Charles Van Schaick and Michael Lesy.

Rare. Very good .

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Book number: 34588

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; OPERA; SINGER; OPERATIC SOPRANO; PAULINE L'ALLEMAND; AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATION; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AMERICAN PREMIERE OF LAKME BY DELIBES; ACADEMY OF MUSIC, PHILADELPHIA.

(Heifetz, Jascha; Flagstad, Kirsten; Hofmann, Josef; Iturbi, Jose; Lehmann, Lotte; Melchior, Lauritz; Swarthout, Gladys; et al). American Guild of Musical Artists, Inc.

Concert Under the Auspices of American Guild of Musical Artists, Inc. For the Benefit of the Flood Relief Fund of the American Red Cross; Carnegie Hall Saturday, February 20, 1937 at 8: 30 O'Clock.

[New York]: American Guild of Musical Artists, Inc. (1937). (1937). - Quarto, 12-1/8 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stapled white wrappers with a cover illustration by Howard Chandler Christy. Christy's cover illustration depicts a lovely young woman playing a lyre beneath the "American Guild of Musical Artists, Inc.'s" banner and with the illustrator's presentation "Best Greetings from Howard Chandler Christy 1937" printed at the bottom left of the image. The covers are soiled with some foxing, particularly near the edges, and there is a small hole at the bottom of the front cover. A three inch strip has been clipped away from the bottom edge of the blank rear cover. 22 leaves, illustrated with full-page portraits of the 13 artists participating in this benefit concert: Gaspar Cassado, Kirsten Flagstad, Jascha Heifetz, Josef Hofmann, Jose Iturbi, Lotte Lehmann, Lauritz Melchior, Lily Pons, Elisabeth Rethberg, Albert Spalding, Gladys Swarthout, Lawrence Tibbett, and Efrem Zimbalist. Several pictorial ads also decorate the program. There are 3 tiny holes to the lower right corner of the last leaf and a tiny hole to the corner of the preceding leaf. There is a tiny tear to the bottom front corner of Lawrence Tibbett's portrait. Remnants of light blue paper, possibly from a ticket, adhere to the inner edge of one of the "Programme" pages. Good. A rare souvenir program. The concert included performances of works by Beethoven, Sarasate, Brahms, Paganini, Purcell, Chopin, Verdi, Bach, Wagner, Strauss, Rossini, Leo Blech, etc. A labor union, the American Guild of Musical Artists was founded in 1936, the year preceding this program, to represent opera singers who were being forced into unfair contracts. The guild soon expanded to include ballet dancers and other dancers, dance companies, opera directors and backstage employees, as well as figure skaters. At the time of the Guild's formation Lawrence Tibbett was President and Jascha Heifetz 1st Vice-President. In 1937 Howard Chandler Christy created the AGMA's logo, represented on the cover of this souvenir program, which he gifted to the guild. Good .

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Book number: 36607

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; CLASSICAL; OPERA; CONCERT UNDER THE AUSPICES OF AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS, INC.; OPERA SINGERS' LABOR UNION; BENEFIT OF THE FLOOD RELIEF FUND OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS; HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY ILLUSTRATION; LOGO; AGMA; ILLUSTRATED; ILLU

[Anonymous].

Instructor for the Mandolin - Guitar Method. A Natural Course in Music. Modern - Practical - Concise. [Cover Title].

No place or publisher listed, circa [1920's-1930's]. [1920's-1930's]. No place or publisher listed, circa [1920's-1930's]. [1920's-1930's]. Very good. - Oblong octavo, 6-3/4 inches high by 10-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in pink pictorial wrappers illustrated with an image of a mandolin-guitar, similar in shape to a zither. The covers are very slightly soiled. 16 pages, including 9 pages of music. Tipped onto page 7 is a sheet giving "Instructions For Tuning" with a tiny chip to the bottom of that leaf. Very good. The title page reads as follows: "THE MANDOLIN-GUITAR METHOD. The System Makes a Player of You. Simple - Speedy - Satisfying". Very good .

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Book number: 98557

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; GUITAR; INSTRUCTOR FOR THE MANDOLIN - GUITAR METHOD; A NATURAL COURSE IN MUSIC; MODERN - PRACTICAL - COINSICE; THE SYSTEM MAKES A PLAYER OF YOU; SIMPLE - SPEEDY - SATISFYING; 20TH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; INSTRUCTIONS FOR TUNING; MUSICAL SCORES.

(Anonymous)

The Police / Ghost in the Machine / Tour '81-'82 / Official Program

(1981). (1981). (1981). (1981). Good. - Quarto, 12 inches high by 9 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stapled black wraps. 12 pages, profusely illustrated throughout in color and black & white. There are several pinholes through the 4 corners of the program. Good.

Includes an essay entitled "The Police and the 'Golden Age of Saturn'" and playful biographies of Sting, Stewart Copeland, and Andy Summers. Good .

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Book number: 22656

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; ROCK; POP; STING; THE POLICE; GHOST IN THE MACHINE; PROGRAM; GOLDEN AGE OF SATURN; TOUR; ILLUSTRATED; ORIGINAL; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; STEWART COPELAND; ANDY SUMMERS.

(Anonymous)

The Victor Book of the Opera: Stories of Seventy Grand Operas with Three Hundred Illustrations & Descriptions of Seven Hundred Victor Opera Records

Camden, NJ: Victor Talking Machine Co. (1912). (1912). Camden, NJ: Victor Talking Machine Co. (1912). (1912). Fair. - Octavo, maroon cloth titled in gilt with decorations in gilt on the front cover & spine. The covers are bumped. The spine is faded with the head & tail chipped. 375 pages. The hinges are cracked. The edges of the pastedowns & endpapers are faded & the front endpaper is detached with a small piece out of the bottom corner. There is an owner's faded name & address on the flyleaf & the bottom corners of the first few leaves are creased. There is a small tear to the top edge of the title page. Numerous black-and-white illustrations. Good.

The first book in this series. Fair .

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Book number: 29898

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; OPERA; THE VICTOR BOOK OF THE OPERA; STORIES OF SEVENTY OPERAS; RECORDINGS; VICTOR RECORDINGS; PHONOGRAPH RECORDS; REFERENCE; ILLUSTRATIONS; FIRST IN SERIES; 1ST IN SERIES.

Apel, Willi

Harvard Dictionary of Music

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958. 1958. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958. 1958. Very good. - Octavo, maroon cloth titled in gilt on spine. The covers are rubbed & bumped & there is a tiny tear to the cloth of the spine. x & 833 pp. There are tiny stains to 2 rear blanks. Illustrated with music staves. Very good.

Originally published in 1944. Very good .

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Book number: 2125

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; REFERENCE; DICTIONARY; HARVARD; WILLI APPEL.

(Arkatov, James). Rich, Alan

Masters of Music: Great Artists at Work. Photographs by James Arkatov. Text by Alan Rich. Foreword by Isaac Stern. Preface by Nicolas Slonimsky

Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, (1990). (1990). Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, (1990). (1990). Very good. - Quarto [11-1/4 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], cloth, in a dust wrapper. The covers are lightly rubbed with a small, light stain to the rear cover. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed with the top edges of the flaps darkened & the rear flap slightly chipped. 200 pages. Profuse black- and-white photographic illustrations. Very good. Very good .

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Book number: 12708

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; CONDUCTORS; MUSICIANS; PORTRAITS; MASTERS OF MUSIC; GREAT ARTISTS AT WORK; PHOTOGRAPHY; CELLIST; PHOTOGRAPHER; JAMES ARKATOV; ALAN RICH; ISAAC STERN; NICOLAS SLONIMSKY.

Armitage, Merle

Accent on Life. Foreword by John Charles Thomas

Ames, IA: The Iowa State University Press, (1964). (1964). Ames, IA: The Iowa State University Press, (1964). (1964). Very good. - Octavo, black cloth, in a price-clipped dust wrapper. The covers are lightly rubbed. There are some light stains to the tail of the dust jacket spine. xv & 386 pages plus colophon. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper.

First edition. Very good .

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Book number: 30051

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; OPERA; BALLET; MANAGER; IMPRESARIO; BOOK DESIGNER; TYPOGRAPHER; MERLE ARMITAGE; MEMOIR; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; JOHN CHARLES THOMAS; ACCENT ON LIFE; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

(Arnould, Sophie). (Lalauze, Adolphe). Douglas, Robert B.

Sophie Arnould: Actress and Wit.

Paris: Charles Carrington, 1898. 1898. - Large octavo, blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The binding is lightly rubbed & the covers are bumped. x, [ii] & 272 pages plus 4-page publisher's ad, partially unopened. lllustrated with 7 copperplate engravings by Adolphe Lalauze. The book is cracked at page 64. The bottom corners of the last 60 pages are creased. The plates are somewhat darkened as a result of contact with their tissue guards. Good.

Limited edition of 500 copies. Good .

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Book number: 4448

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; OPERA. OPERA SINGER; SINGER; FRENCH; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; 18TH CENTURY; SOPHIE ARNOULD; BIOGRAPHY; ROBERT B. DOUGLAS; ENGRAVINGS; COPPER-PLATE ENGRAVINGS; PLATES; ILLUSTRATIONS; ADOLPHE LALAUZE; NINETEENTH CENURY; 19TH CENTURY; LIMITED EDITION.