Original antique music scores from the late 19th century and early 20th century

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You Love Me Not

Original woodblock print from
The Illustrated London News
(date unknown, but circa 1850-1870)

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 11.25 x 15.875 inches

Printed on both sides of paper, as shown above

MILD FOXING, MINOR EDGE/CORNER WEAR

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The Names on the Beech-tree

Original woodblock print from
The Illustrated London News
(June 19, 1852 written in pencil at bottom)

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 11.25 x 15.875 inches

Printed on both sides of paper, as shown above

MILD FOXING, MINOR EDGE/CORNER WEAR

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'Mid the New-mown Hay

Original woodblock print from
The Illustrated London News
(July 28, 1855)

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 11.25 x 15.875 inches

Printed on both sides of paper, as shown above

MILD FOXING, MINOR EDGE/CORNER WEAR, DOG-EAR CREASE UPPER LEFT CORNER

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Two Rivers (Zwei Flusse)

Original woodblock print from
The Illustrated London News
(March 13, 1858)

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 11.25 x 15.875 inches

Printed on both sides of paper, as shown above

SOME FOXING, MINOR EDGE/CORNER WEAR

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Mazurka by Henry Russell / Waltz by Henry Russell

Illustrations are: "Fruit" by Vidal and "Flowers" by Vidal

Original woodblock print from
The Illustrated London News
(April 12, 1851)

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 21 x 15.875 inches

Printed on both sides of paper

MINOR EDGE/CORNER WEAR

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The Volunteers of England

Original woodblock print from
The Illustrated London News
(May 5, 1860)

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 11.25 x 15.875 inches

Printed on both sides of paper, as shown above

MINOR EDGE/CORNER WEAR

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The Last Appeal

Original woodblock print from
The Illustrated London News
(Jan. 19, 1850)

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 11.25 x 15.875 inches

Printed on both sides of paper, as shown above

MINOR EDGE/CORNER WEAR

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Den Tapfre Landsoldat
The Gallant Soldier

Original woodblock print from
The Illustrated London News
(Nov. 29, 1851)

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 11.25 x 15.875 inches

Printed on both sides of paper, as shown above

MINOR FOXING, MINOR EDGE/CORNER WEAR

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The First Cannon Shot!

Original woodblock print from
The Illustrated London News
(Oct. 15, 1853)

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 11.25 x 15.875 inches

Printed on both sides of paper, as shown above

MINOR EDGE/CORNER WEAR

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Wheeling, Bicycle Parade for the Piano

by R. S. Peniston

Dedicated to the Wanderers Club, Toronto

Toronto | Suckling & Sons (1891)

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 9.5 x 13.25 inches

Printed on both sides of paper, as shown above -- plus one page of the music score printed on one side and blank on opposite side. This third page has a stabilized tear on it.

MINOR EDGE/CORNER WEAR. SHORT TEAR ON LEFT SIDE OF COVER PAGE, STABILIZED TEAR ON THE SCORE PAGE.

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Manhattan Beach March

To Austin Corbin, Esq.

by John Philip Sousa

Published by The John Church Company, New York and Chicago

[1894]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 10.675 x 14 inches

Printed on both sides of paper, as shown above. Only cover and back side of cover are available.

EDGE TEARS, TONED PAPER, EDGE/CORNER WEAR, LIGHT DOG-EAR CREASE UPPER RIGHT OF FRONT COVER.

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Little Dolly Daydream

Pride of Idaho

Words & Music by Leslie Stuart
Sung by Eugene Stratton

Copyright Francis, Day & Hunter, London

[1900? written in pen at top right of cover]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 10 x 14 inches

Printed on both sides of paper, as shown above. Only cover and back side of cover are available.

SOMEWHAT RUMPLED, INKED NOTATION TOP RIGHT OF COVER, TYPICAL AGE-TONING OF PAPER

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Mother, Father and I

Written and Composed by Frederick Boyer and sung with great success by McCall Chambers

Copyright: London; Hopwood & Cres

[date unknown, circa late 1800s]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 10 x 14 inches

8 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE)

Printed on both sides of paper, except front cover -- which is blank on reverse side

SOMEWHAT RUMPLED, TEARS AROUND EDGES, MINOR SOILING/FOXING

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Westward Ho!

Grande Galop de Concert by G.D. Wilson

Published by Oliver Ditson & Co, Boston

[1881]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 14 x 10.75 inches

14 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE)

RUMPLED, TEARS AROUND EDGES, SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING, PENCIL NOTATIONS

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Lancers

National Melodies by R. Gruenwald

Published by C.D. de Zouche, Montreal

[date unknown, late 1880s]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 10.375 x 13.25 inches

8 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE)

TEARS AROUND EDGES, SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING, PENCIL NOTATIONS

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Love Will Guide

Song, Words by G. Clifton Bingham
Music by Joseph L . Roeckel

Published by The Anglo-Canadian Music Publishers Association, Limited
Toronto

[circa 1875]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 9.5 x 13.25 inches

8 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) no longer bound together

TEARS AROUND EDGES, SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING, PAGES ARE LOOSE

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My Love and I

A May Song
Words by Violet Fane
Music by F. Paolo Tosti

Published by The Anglo-Canadian Music Publishers Association, Limited
Toronto

[circa 1875]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 9.5 x 13.25 inches

8 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) no longer bound together

MINOR SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING, PAGES ARE LOOSE

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The Old Love Song

The Words by Frederic E. Weatherly
The Music by Paul Rodney

Published by The Anglo-Canadian Music Publishers Association, Limited
Toronto

[circa 1886]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 9.5 x 13.25 inches

8 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) loosely bound together

MINOR SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING, PAGES ARE LOOSELY BOUND

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The Love that Came Too Late

Words by Frederic E. Weatherly
Music by F. Paolo Tosti

Published by The Anglo-Canadian Music Publishers Association, Limited
Toronto

[circa 1886]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 9.5 x 13.25 inches

8 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) loosely bound together

MINOR SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING, PAGES ARE LOOSELY BOUND

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Popular Songs
Canadian Copyright Edition

Published by The Anglo-Canadian Music Publishers Association, Limited
Toronto

[1890]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 10.25 x 13.25 inches

8 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) loosely bound together

MINOR SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING, PAGES ARE LOOSELY BOUND

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Dance Music for the Pianoforte

Published by I. Suckling & Sons
Toronto

[1884]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 9.25 x 13.25 inches

6 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) loosely bound together

MINOR SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING, PAGES ARE LOOSELY BOUND

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My Heart's Delight

Polka elegante pour piano
par M. Martin

Published by I. Suckling & Sons
Toronto

[1889]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 9.25 x 13.25 inches

8 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) no bound together

MINOR SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING, PAGES ARE NOT BOUND

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The Ball-Room

Published by I. Suckling & Sons
Toronto

[1887]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 9.75 x 13.25 inches

8 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) loosely bound together

STAIN ON COVER, MINOR SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING, PAGES ARE LOOSELY BOUND

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The Colored Cadets Patrol March

(for the Military Schottische)

Arranged from American Melodies
for the Piano
by Hedley Massey

Published by I. Suckling & Sons
Toronto

[1891]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 9.5 x 13.25 inches

6 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) loosely bound together

MINOR SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING, PAGES ARE LOOSELY BOUND

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Louisiana Lou

Song by Leslie Stuart
Sung by Miss Ellaline Terriss in H.J.W. Dam's Musical Farce "The Shop Girl" at the Gaiety Theatre

Published by The Anglo-Canadian Music Publishers Association, Limited
Toronto

[1896]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 9.875 x 13.25 inches

6 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) loosely bound together

MINOR SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING/RUMPLING, PAGES ARE LOOSELY BOUND

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Happy Darkies

Barn Dance by Arthur E. Godfrey

Published by Robert Cocks & Co.
Music Publishers to the Queen & H.R.H. The Prince of Wales
London

[1902]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 10.25 x 14 inches

8 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) loosely bound together

MINOR SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING/RUMPLING, PAGES ARE LOOSELY BOUND

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Lords of the Air

Words and Music by Michael North & Davy Burnaby

Published by Canadian Music Sales Corp. Ltd.
Toronto

[1940]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 9 x 12 inches

6 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) loosely bound together

EDGE TEARS/STAIN/SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING/RUMPLING, PAGES ARE LOOSELY BOUND

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Champagne Charlie

Comic Song Schottisch

Music by Alfred Lee

Published by Lee & Walker, Philadelphia

[no date, circa 1880s-1890s]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 10 x 13.25 inches

8 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) loosely bound together

PIN HOLES IN CORNERS/SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING/RUMPLING, PAGES ARE LOOSELY BOUND

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Heigh Ho
(The Dwarfs' Marching Song)

Walt Disney's First Full Length Feature Production
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Words by Larry Morey
Music by Frank Churchill

Irving Berlin, Inc, Music Publishers, New York

Canadian Music Sales Corp. Limited, Toronto

[1938]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 9.125 x 12.125 inches

6 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) loosely bound together

MINOR WEAR AND AGE-APPROPRIATE TONING

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[4 pages of sheet music from The Garden of Sleep; 'A Summer Song' by Clement Scott]

publisher and date unknown, circa 1900

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 10.25 x 14.25 inches

4 PAGES TOTAL, INCOMPLETE MUSIC SCORE

EDGE TEARS/WEAR AND AGE-APPROPRIATE TONING/PENCIL NOTATIONS

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[4 pages of sheet music from unidentified song]

publisher and date unknown, circa 1900

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 9.5 x 13.25 inches

4 PAGES TOTAL, INCOMPLETE MUSIC SCORE

TEARS/WEAR AND AGE-APPROPRIATE TONING

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L'Absence

Polka by Albert Nordheimer

Published by A. & S. Nordheimer

[1895]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 9.5 x 13.25 inches

6 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) not bound together

TYPICAL SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING, SHORT EDGE TEARS. PAGES ARE NOT BOUND

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White Wings

Words and Music by Banks Winter

Published by Willis Woodward & Co., New York

[1884]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 10.675 x 14 inches

8 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) not bound together

POOR CONDITION: SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING, SHORT EDGE TEARS. PAGES ARE NOT BOUND

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Mr Captain, Stop the Ship!

Words by W. A. Archbold, Music by Felix MdGlennon

Published by Spaulding & Gray, New York
Howard & Co., London, England

[1894]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 10.75 x 14 inches

6 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) not bound together

POOR CONDITION: SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING/PAPER LOSS/TEARS. PAGES ARE NOT BOUND

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I'll take you home again, Kathleen

Words and Music by Thomas P. Westendorf

Published by John Church & Co., Cincinnati

[1876]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 10.5 x 14 inches

4.5 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) not bound together, final page is only about one-half a sheet and blank on reverse side

POOR CONDITION: SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING, EXTENSIVE TEARS AND PAPER LOSS. PAGES ARE NOT BOUND

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Come where the lilies bloom

Written and Composed by Will L. Thompson

Published by W. L. Thompson & Co., Chicago

[1878]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 10.75 x 13.75 inches

12 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) loosely bound together

POOR CONDITION: SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING/PAPER LOSS/TEARS. PAGES ARE LOOSELY BOUND

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The ship that carries me home

Words and Music by J. F. Mitchell

Published by Willis Woodward & Co., New York

[1885]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 10.5 x 13.5 inches

8 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) not bound together

POOR CONDITION: SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING, EXTENSIVE TEARS AND PAPER LOSS. PAGES ARE NOT BOUND

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Barney, take me home again

Words by Arthur W. French, Music by Geo. W. Persley

Published by John Church & Co., Cincinnati

[1875]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 10.5 x 13.5 inches

6 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) not bound together

POOR CONDITION: SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING, EXTENSIVE TEARS AND PAPER LOSS. PAGES ARE NOT BOUND

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Songs and Ballads of the Olden Time

Published by G. Schirmer

[1898]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 10.5 x 13.5 inches

6 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) not bound together

POOR CONDITION: SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING, EXTENSIVE TEARS AND PAPER LOSS. PAGES ARE NOT BOUND

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Miscellany of New and Favorite English Songs and Ballads

Published by G. Schirmer

[circa 1892]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 10.5 x 13.5 inches

10 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) not bound together

POOR CONDITION: SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING, EXTENSIVE TEARS AND PAPER LOSS. PAGES ARE NOT BOUND

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Choice Vocal Melodies

Published not listed

[circa 1880-1900]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 10.5 x 13.5 inches

8 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) not bound together

POOR CONDITION: SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING, EXTENSIVE TEARS AND PAPER LOSS. PAGES ARE NOT BOUND

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Evening Rest

Sacred Songs for Contralto Baritone

by E. H. Gurney

Published by W. J. Dyer & Bro., Minneapolis & St. Paul, MN

[1888]

SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 10.5 x 145 inches

6 PAGES TOTAL (ONLY COVER SHOWN ABOVE) not bound together

POOR CONDITION: SOILING/FOXING/AGE TONING, EXTENSIVE TEARS AND PAPER LOSS. PAGES ARE NOT BOUND