[Rarebooks] John Clare song, printed

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Clare (John) – 
(<file:///http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_13>13 
July 
<file:///http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1793>1793 – 
<file:///http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_20>20 
May 
<file:///http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1864>1864) 
= 
<file:///http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England>English 
<file:///http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet>poet, 
the 
“<file:///http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northamptonshire>Northamptonshire 
Peasant Poet"


THE LOVE AND THE BEAUTY OF WOMAN. Sung by Mr. 
Broadhurst. The words Written & Dedicated to Miss 
Eliza Simpson by John Clare Esqr.  The Music 
Composed by George Ware.  London: Published by E. W. Whitaker.  [1820s]

Engraved score, 12 ¾”, undated, priced 2/.   5pp plus cover leaf.   $350.00


“Come give us the health to the dearest on 
earth”   = first line.  Cf , A29 2; A54 283; MC 312; MP IV 30


E. W. Whitaker was the exact name of the firm for 
only a few years.  George Byron Ware was 
responsible for several musicals, most too early 
for the song in hand (?).  This Eliza Simpson is 
not Barnum’s giantess, nor surely the source for 
detective Eliza Simpson in the TV Simpsons series

Some of Ware’s musicals:

             <file:///http://firstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/FSFETCH?fetchtype=fullrecord:sessionid=fsapp12-59113-eyysc9j3-9frg8v:entitypagenum=2:0:recno=10:resultset=1:format=FI:next=html/record.html:bad=error/badfetch.html:entitytoprecno=10:entitycurrecno=10:numrecs=1>HARLEQUIN 
IN HIS ELEMENT (1808)

             THE H ONEYMOON (1808)

             AMATEURS AND ACTORS (1810)

             BELLES WITHOUT BEAUX (1810)


Peterborough Museum has most of the John Clare mss.



A FIRST-LINE INDEX TO THE POETRY OF JOHN CLARE:
  INTRODUCTION

Compiled by <file:///mailto:john.goodridge@ntu.ac.uk>John Goodridge
(c) copyright John Goodridge, December 1999.

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