Antique 1879 CARMEN Bizet Hardcover Score Signatures Carey Family Edna Dunham
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Antique 1879 CARMEN Bizet Hardcover Score Signatures Carey Family Edna Dunham Willard Peabody ATTENTION ANTIQUARIAN ARCHIVISTS, OPERA HISTORIANS, & BALTIMORE COLLECTORS: For auction is a monumental artifact of late-19th and early-20th-century American musical provenance: a rare antique 1879 hardcover score of Georges Bizet's masterpiece Carmen, published by Oliver Ditson & Co. An Unbroken Chain of Elite Baltimore Provenance: This volume features layers of rich, localized history beautifully preserved across the front endpapers: 1. Gilded Age High Society (1893): Hand-signed in gorgeous brown fountain pen script: "Mrs. John E. Carey, 1012 Belvidere Terrace, 1893." The Carey family was one of Baltimore's elite lineages, and Belvidere Terrace (N. Calvert St.) was a premier enclave for the city's high society. 2. Custom Art Nouveau Bookplate (1900): Pasted on the inner board is the family's custom-engraved personal bookplate reading: "John E. & Sarah M. Carey, 1900," featuring a striking tree design. 3. The Peabody Vocal Royalty Connection: Boldly signed across both the endpaper and directly over the bookplate is Edna Dunham Willard. A nationally renowned concert soprano, she served as an esteemed professor of voice at Baltimore's legendary Peabody Conservatory from 1916 to 1921. To this day, the elite Edna Dunham Willard Voice Scholarship at Johns Hopkins Peabody is awarded in her honor. This score was a living, working piece of the 20th-century Peabody vocal department's founda
- Publisher: Oliver Ditson & Co.
- Year: 1879
- Binding: Hardcover
- Condition: Fair
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