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A rare copy of Album of Eight Songs: Music by Prince Victor Duleep Singh, consisting of his own compositions Chappell & Co. Ltd., London, n.d. [but probably before 1898](2) image 1
A rare copy of Album of Eight Songs: Music by Prince Victor Duleep Singh, consisting of his own compositions Chappell & Co. Ltd., London, n.d. [but probably before 1898](2) image 2
A rare copy of Album of Eight Songs: Music by Prince Victor Duleep Singh, consisting of his own compositions Chappell & Co. Ltd., London, n.d. [but probably before 1898](2) image 3
A rare copy of Album of Eight Songs: Music by Prince Victor Duleep Singh, consisting of his own compositions Chappell & Co. Ltd., London, n.d. [but probably before 1898](2) image 4
A rare copy of Album of Eight Songs: Music by Prince Victor Duleep Singh, consisting of his own compositions Chappell & Co. Ltd., London, n.d. [but probably before 1898](2) image 5
Lot 137

A rare copy of Album of Eight Songs: Music by Prince Victor Duleep Singh, consisting of his own compositions
Chappell & Co. Ltd., London, n.d. [but probably before 1898]
(2)

30 March 2021, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A rare copy of Album of Eight Songs: Music by Prince Victor Duleep Singh, consisting of his own compositions
Chappell & Co. Ltd., London, n.d. [but probably before 1898]

consisting of settings of poems and lyrics by Swinburne, de Musset, Leconte de Lisle and Sully Prudhomme, to music by the Prince, 40 pages, 360 x 265 mm.; together with a copy of An Account of Blo' Norton Hall, communicated by Prince Frederick Duleep Singh, MVO, FSA, VP, Norfolk & Norwich Archaeological Society, 1914, signed by the Prince and dedicated by him to Herbert Hudson, March 1914, 50 pages, various plates and diagrams, half-marbled covers
220 x 140 mm.(2)

Footnotes

Prince Victor (1866-1918) was the eldest son of Maharajah Duleep Singh, and after an abortive career in the British Army, married Lady Anne Coventry in 1898. This collection of songs, written doubtless for his own amusement (but, notably, dedicated to various ladies), shows him as a typical late Victorian gentleman, with some of the sentimentality of the time, but also steeped in English and French literature.

The titles of the songs are: 'Ici Bas' (Here Below); 'For a Day and a Night'; 'Adieu Suzon' (Good-bye Suzon); 'Tre Filia d'Oro'; 'A Song of Maytime'; 'In the Lower Lands of Day'; 'When the Swallows Homeland Fly'; 'If Love Were What the Rose Is'.

In 1909, after some years spent house-hunting, Prince Frederick (1868-1926), a younger son of Duleep Singh, bought the 16th Century moated house, Blo' Norton Hall, near Thetford in Norfolk. He was a keen antiquarian, having read History at Cambridge, and he was particularly interested in the Stuarts and Charles I. He was a member of numerous historical societies, but was most associated with the Norfolk & Norwich Archaeological Society, joining in 1897 and becoming its President in 1924.

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