[Rarebooks] FS: Very scarce "Keepsake Musical" (not in OCLC). w/30 plates, printed music, lithographed text. Paris: 1851.

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(MUSIC) Launer-Manera, Elisa (comp.). KEEPSAKE MUSICAL. Illustre de 30 Gravures Anglaises. Blanche Roses. Album des Femmes par Mme El Launer Manera, Mrs. A. Gouffe, A. Sowinski, A.Manera, Bazzoni, et Eg. de Tariec. Paris: Imp. Jacommel & Co. (1851). 4to. 2 vols. Consisting of 30 songs of printed music (mostly folding), each accompanied with a plate (a lithograph portrait) and (30) leaves of lithographed text printed on tissue paper. Finely bound by "Engel Rel., Paris" in 1/2 red morocco, gilt tooled spines, over marbled boards. T.e.g. Some foxing. Bookplate of French playwright Paul Gavault on both pastedowns.    $1,250.00 (trade discount allowed)
Elisa Launer-Manera (1804-1853) wrote the words & music for most of the songs in this collection. Very scarce, not listed in OCLC. The lithography is by Jacommel in Paris.

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