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SMITH ALBERT & PARRY JOHN.: Berlin Wool.
London Cramer ,Addison & Beale. Summer 1843. With a red and black colour cover produced on the comparatively rare Chabot engraved Zinc plate and showing a piece of Berlin wool being worked into an embroidery pattern. This the subject of the song, the craze for embroidery everywhere and covering everything. The composer /lyric writer of this humourous pastiche was Albert Smith who died in 1860 ran popular entertainments at the Egyptian Hall London between 1851-58 that centred upon his feat of climbing Mont Blanc but also he probably had music ,dance and song within them, Certainly J.H. Tully wrote The Mont Blanc Quadrilles and C.R. Cooke the Chamouni Polka in celebration of Smith and his entertainments which were as popular in London as Madame Tussauds. John Orlando Parry (1810-79) son of the noted Welsh composer and a baritone singer and composer of a number of witty songs including Wanted a Wife, A Heart to Let and the notable Norah the Pride of Kildare. Later in his career he appeared in the German Reed entertainments in the 1860's. We can confirm the date of publication through the plate numbering research undertaken by Neighbour & Tyson as Summer 1843. Folio size with music. Condition VG.
Offered for EUR 30.00 = appr. US$ 42.12 by: Olde Musick & Cokery Books - Book number: 6829
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