[SHEET MUSIC] Do not mingle : air as sung by Madame Malibran in the opera La Sonnambula / composed

by Bellini.

A$400 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Sydney : Published at Grocott s Music Saloon, George Street, [probably 1847]. Folio (340 mm), disbound from a nineteenth-century music album, original stitching with remnants of old paper spine, 7 pp of engraved music notation with decorative title and publisher s imprint at head of first page; original owner s manuscript pagination at top corners; paper browned, otherwise clean; a very good example. According to Dr. Graeme Skinner (see citation below), James Turner Grocott was trading as printer, stationer, and music seller at 486 George Street (formerly Francis Ellard s premises) from March 1847, at which time he appears also to have acquired Ellard s plates, until May 1851, at which time Grocott appears to have ceased trading; he never returned to music publishing and his/Ellard s plates were in turn acquired by Woolcott and Clarke, and later J. R. Clarke. This very early Sydney edition of Do not mingle , with the Grocott s Music Saloon imprint probably published in 1847 appears unrecorded in Australian collections. The State Library of New South Wales holds the original edition with the imprint of F. Ellard s Music Saloon (March, 1847?); and the later edition by Woolcott and Clarke, which also used Ellard s plates, is held in several collections. Francis Ellard s decision to engrave and publish the sheet music for Bellini s Do not mingle (an aria made famous by the great Spanish opera singer Maria Malibran) was no doubt a commercial one based on the popularity of Mrs (Agn

• Binding: Hardcover

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