ALBUM - MUSIC AND THEATRE
ALBUM - MUSIC AND THEATRE
Fine collection of loosely-mounted signed photographs, predominantly of musicians and actors, together with an signed autograph self-caricature by Enrico Caruso (head-and-shoulders, full face, London 1906), those featuring in photographs including John Philip Sousa (in braided jacket, 1905), Ferruccio Busoni (seated at the piano, 1907), Eugene Ysaye (in contemplative pose, 1908), William Gillette (as Sherlock Holmes, in full-length smoking jacket, clutching a letter and in full sleuth mode, 1905), Ignaz Paderewski (with musical quotation), Fritz Kreisler, Luisa Tetrazzina, Vladimir de Pachmann, Marie Hall, Harold Bauer, Wilhelm Backhaus, Mark Hambourg, C. Hubert Parry, Auguste Van Biene, Charles Santley, Charles Saunders, Marie Brema (as Brünnhilde), Henry Irving (as Shylock), A.W. Pinero, Brandon Thomas, Weedon Grossmith, Hans Richter, Nellie Melba, Clara Butt, Ellen Terry, Little Tich, Zena and Phyllis Dare, Vesta Tilley, Marie Tempest, Martin Harvey, Lillah McCarthy, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Mrs Patrick Campbell, George Alexander, Squire Bancroft, Matheson Lang, and many others; plus signed photographs of Kitchener, Roberts, Balfour, Asquith and others, in an Art Nouveau 'Post Card Album' decorated à la Japonaise, 4to, [c.1905]
Sold for £2,160 inc. premium

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