Shelfmark
Ib5.4.58 (copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Ib5.4.59(01) (copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Ib5.4.66 (copy 3)
Additional shelfmark
Ibb5.5.27(02) (copy 4)
Author
Title
Eton : an ode / by Algernon Charles Swinburne set to music for the four hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the College by C. Hubert H. Parry.
Edition
Novello's original octavo edition.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London ; New York : Novello, Ewer and Co., 1891.
Physical description
1 vocal score (23 p.) ; 28 cm. (4to)
Series statement
(Novello's original octavo edition)
Language
English words.
Language
Staff notation.
Note
Publisher's advertisements on wrappers.
Note
On title page: "Price two shillings".
Provenance
Copy 1: Armorial bookplate of F. Manley Sims.
Provenance
Copy 1: Ink stamp on title page: "Manley Sims Eton Collection".
Provenance
Copy 1: Eton College Library ink stamp on title page verso.
Provenance
Copy 3: Ms. inscription on front cover: "E.L. Vaughan September 1898".
Provenance
Copy 4: Blue ink stamp of Rackley Library on the front flyleaf.
Provenance
Copy 4: Ms. annotation in pencil on the front flyleaf, reading "A1".
Provenance
Copy 4: Ms. annotation in black ink on the title page, reading: "E.D. from his devoted old disciple C.H.H.P. Oct./90".
Binding
Copy 1: 19th century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge; publisher's orange paper wrappers retained.
Binding
Copy 2: Cloth quarter-binding; boards covered in paper; decorated endpapers.
Binding
Copy 3: Publisher's printed paper covers.
Binding
Copy 4: 19th century vellum binding; original cream and brown printed wrappers bound in; gilt title "C.H.H. Parry. Frogs. Eton. 1892" with gilt bands on spine within a brownish-red label; red edges; blank endpapers.
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: Bookseller's stamp on free front endpaper verso: "Hatchards 187 Piccadilly".
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: Fith additional final [8] pages of publisher's advertisements.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Bound with: "The Song of the Scug", "The Eton College Hunt", "The game's the thing ", "Song of the Wall ", "No triumphs like those", "Twenty years ago" and "Carmen Etonense".
Copy-specific note
Copy 4: Bound with C. Hubert H. Parry's "The music to The frogs of Aristophanes" (Breitkopf & Härtel, [1892]).
Copy-specific note
Copy 4: Loosely inserted theatre programme for a production of "The Frogs" (English version), performed at the New Theatre, Oxford, between 24 and 29 February 1892. Catalogued and stored separately; see related item in local holdings.
Subject
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837 - 1909 Musical settings.
Subject
Subject
Cantatas, Secular Vocal scores with piano.
Subject
Odes, English 19th century.
Subject
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra Vocal scores with piano.
Genre/Form
Vocal scores.
Genre/Form
Musical settings.
Genre/Form
Event music.
Added entry--name
Manley Sims, F. former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Novello, Ewer & Co. publisher.
Added entry--name
Rackley Library former owner
Added entry--place
England London.
Added entry--place
United States New York.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B36813