Editore: Addison, Hollier & Lucas [1857], London, 1857
Da: Colin Coleman Music, Stewkley, Regno Unito
Spartito
Disbound. Size: Folio. [i (title)], 5pp.
Editore: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, London, 1865
Da: Colin Coleman Music, Stewkley, Regno Unito
Size: 8vo. xvi, 302pp. Half leather (rubbed, front hinge detached) with marbled boards. Music examples.
Editore: Place and date not stated. Parkins & Gotto London
Da: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Regno Unito
On a piece of paper roughly 3.5 x 9 cm, with embossed details of stationers. Good, with tiny crease to one corner. A clear signature, in pencil.
Editore: Without date or place
Da: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Regno Unito
Cut from a letter. On small rectangle of light-grey paper, roughly 2 x 4 cm. Fair, on aged paper with thin light strip of glue staining along top edge. Neat firm signature, underlined and overlined, reading 'John Hullah'.
Editore: Hardpress Publishing, 2013
ISBN 10: 1314543334 ISBN 13: 9781314543339
Da: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, Regno Unito
Paperback / softback. Condizione: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.
Editore: 30 March ; on letterhead of 11 Devonshire Place W. London, 1868
Da: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Regno Unito
Manoscritto / Collezionismo cartaceo
12mo, 2 pp. Bifolium. 12 lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. He would 'much like' to show him a song he has written for 'Exeter Hall', and proposes dinner the following day. In a postscript asks if he has 'learnt anything about R. J. S. Stevens'.
Editore: 24 May no year; 20 St James's Place London
Da: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Regno Unito
Manoscritto / Collezionismo cartaceo
12mo, 1 p. 10 lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. The recipient 'had better be in Town for the Choral Meeting on the 4th. June'. Gives details of when the recipient will 'generally find' Hullah there.
Editore: Glasgow [Scotland]: Nov. 3., 1848., 1848
Da: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
Copia autografata
Condizione: Very good. - 79 words penned in black ink on 2-1/3 sides of a folded sheet of stock, 7 inches high by 4-3/8 inches wide. Dated "Nov. 3. 1848" and signed "John Hullah". Remnants of gray paper adhere to the 4th [blank] side where the letter has been removed from an album. Folded twice for mailing. Very good. Hullah's letter, addressed to G. L. Craik, is written from Queen's Hotel, Glasgow. His home address in London is printed on the fourth, blank side of what is evidently his personalized letterhead. Hullah urges Craik to purchase a piano in his absence; "Read the enclosed [not present], addressed to a first-rate man at Broadwoods'. If you approve, take it there & ask for him. He will do all that is needed -- quite as well as / Yours Ever Truly / John Hullah".John Pyke Hullahh [1812-1884] was an English composer and music teacher. His compositions, which remained popular for some years after his death, were mainly ballads, though he also composed three operas in the 1830s, including one to words by Dickens, "The Village Coquette". More important perhaps was his commitment to popularizing musical education. He was appointed musical inspector of British training schools in 1872 and in 1878 he went abroad to study the condition of musical education in foreign schools, writing a valuable report on his return. Though his success was limited by his strenuous opposition to the Tonic Sol-Fa system, the value of his work lay in his emphasis on demanding high artistic standards of the music taught and studied.The recipient of the letter was George Lillie Craik, a Scottish writer and literary critic. John Broadwood & Sons, to whom Hullah directs him, is one of the oldest and most prestigious piano companies in the world.
Editore: 18 May ; on letterhead of Grosvenor Mansions Victoria Street S.W. London, 1878
Da: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Regno Unito
Manoscritto / Collezionismo cartaceo
See his entry in the Oxford DNB, which quotes Gordon Cox as stating that Hullah was 'the fountain head of music education in the nineteenth century'. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Handwriting and signature in a bold attractive hand. Reads: 'Dear Mrs. Tail / I have the pleasure to send you a few lines fm Mr. Otto Goldschmidt, about the Bach Choir. / I am, dear Madam / Always Your's [sic] Truly / John Hullah'.
Editore: 18 July ; on letterhead embossed with crest of St Martin's Hall, 1856
Da: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Regno Unito
One page, 12mo. On creased, brittle, aged paper. Repaired with archival tape on reverse, which carries traces of previous mounting. He is sending some lines of introduction 'to my cameo friend who lives in Grafton St Bond St. - No. [i.e. number] unknown, but it is the second or third house on the right going from Bond St.' Hullah's 'Music Hall' - St Martin's Hall in Long Acre - opened in 1850. It burnt to the ground ten years later.
Editore: Stanford Lincolnshire 18 August, 1865
Da: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Regno Unito
Manoscritto / Collezionismo cartaceo
4pp., 12mo. Bifolium on grey paper. In good condition, with traces of mount along one edge of verso of last leaf. Being away from home and his papers, he cannot answer all the recipient's questions, but 'it will be enough if I say that I shall not require an Organ, & that the Illustrations to my lecture would (or might be made to) consist exclusively of unaccompanied vocal music, mostly English. The effect of some pieces might be increased by being performed chorally - say with three or four good voices to a part, but they will all admit of performance by one voice to a part'. He assumes that St Andrew's Hall 'can hardly be worse adapted for speaking in than the room in which I lecture sometimes at Edinburgh, which is cruciform, & holds 2,500 people'. He comments on the practice of lecturing, before concluding with the suggestion that 'all the Illustrations might be very safely left to the Cathedral Choir'.
Editore: Richmond Surrey. 24 January, 1842
Da: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Regno Unito
Manoscritto / Collezionismo cartaceo
4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. The recipient's name, at the foot of the last page, has been scored through. The letter begins: 'My dear Friend, | A note from our mutual friend Sawyer received this Evening informs me that he had transmitted to you some enquiries from me on ye. subject of Church Psalmody - & ye. best mode, & books, for acquiring a knowledge of it - & teaching of it in infant & national Schools - | I have induced one of Mr Hullah's ablest Assistants to lecture every Wednesday & Saturday to two Classes (Male & Female) in my Schools - I have had frequent connections, & some correspondence, with my neighbour Lady Katherine Halkett on Hullah's system - she is a very clever person - a pupil, I am told, of Dugald Stewart, & reputed to have considerable knowledge of Music, in which I desire to be instructed'. He is sorry to say that music played no part in his education, but he has now put himself 'into ye. Class of Schoolmasters - Parish Clerks - Chorister boys - &c held in my School room - & have been practising ye. Diatonic Scale - & Chord Do, Mi, Sol, Do - & intervals as far as Octaves in Hullah's book'. He wants to be able to 'sing from notes without an instrument a good old simple Psalm tune fit for a village Congregation', but finds that his 'two dear boys' - one seven and the other eight, 'have attained to somewhat greater skills' than he has.'Lady K. H.' has read the recipient's letters on music 'with very great delight', and has lent them to him: 'I read every word & I fear I sinned in envying . . at all events I longed for ye. like power of singing Praises to my Redeemer'. He concludes in similarly obsessive style.
Editore: John W. Parker, London, 1843
Da: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Hard Cover (leather binding). Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. LONDON : 1843. Alto Voice Part. Hardback. Full leather binding; light brown with original label lettered 'Psalter'. Lemon end-papers. Neat contemporary owner name to fly-leaf; 'Mary Thompson'. No internal markings. Minor wear only to extremities. VERY GOOD. Scarce. (xix), 368 pages of music. Tight, bright and clean. ASK if you need pictures. **only copy recorded in the UK is in King's College London.** A nice little book.**Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. 12mo. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ]. Size: 12mo.
Editore: Letter: On letterhead of 11 Devonshire Place London W. 'Tuesday night' no date. Cutting of sheet music with docketted date, 1861
Da: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Regno Unito
Manoscritto / Collezionismo cartaceo
Both items in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. ONE (letter): 1p., 12mo. In a neat and elegant hand, it reads: 'Tuesday Night | Dear Laura | I send the tickets; as Goldsmith sent the portion of Lord Clare's haunch of venison to Sir Joshua - | "To paint it or eat it, whichever he pleased" | I am glad you like the Philharmonia | Your affecte. Friend | John Hullah'. TWO (cutting of sheet music): Written in pencil on one side of a 6.5 x 15 cm piece of paper, docketted 'Written by John Hullah 1861 | for '. With a few words in Hullah's hand at head.
Editore: Printed by Walter Dexter for His Friends, (n. p.), 1933
Da: Tavistock Books, ABAA, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Prima edizione Copia autografata
[2 (blank)], 19, [3 (blank)] pp. Facsimile of the Village Coquettes playbill, reputedly from the first performance. 8vo. 9-7/8" x 6-3/8" A collection of 24 letters [21 previously unpublished] from Dickens to John Hullah, 1835 - 1866. Hullah, of course, the musician with whom Dickens collaborated to produce the operetta, The Village Coquettes, first performed in December 1836. Letters with quite informative explanatory annotations by Dexter. Not in the NCBEL, nor Gimbel. At the time of cataloguing, OCLC shows 9 holding institutions. Uncommon in the trade. Modest wear. A VG+ - Nr Fine example. Stiff plain brown paper wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve 1st Printing. Stated limitation of 30 cc. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy to Leslie Staples, SIGNED by Dexter.
Editore: E & J Thomas, Printers, 6, Exeter Street, Strand, London, 1836
Da: Tavistock Books, ABAA, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Single sheet broadside playbill, printed recto only. Watermark, 6" x 3-3/4", "Fortune Figure". Paper from "the Fortuyn paper mill [which] was owned by Van der Lay and his family from 1774 to 1837, during which time the mill used the 'Fortune figure' and similar watermarks. The papers in the [Australia National] Gallery's collection bearing the 'Fortune figure' watermark were probably made at the Fortuyn mill during that period." [Australia National Gallery website]. Verso blank, though with penciled note at top: "Reserved for / Mr. Charles Dickens Esq". While I might wishfully think this note was penciled at the time of printing, I have no evidence to present that such was the case. Masthead device at top. Sheet: 12" x 9-1/2" Dickens wrote the Village Coquettes & read it to friends July 23 1836, thereafter sending the libretto to John Braham, the famous tenor who had, 7 months earlier, opened the St. James Theatre, however, much to Dickens' consternation, the piece not actually performed until 6 December 1836. [cf. Fawcett. Dickens the Dramatist, pp. 11-13. Here offered an 1836 St. James's playbill, which advertises the 23 December production of Dickens' new operatic burletta, "The VILLAGE COQUETTES! The Drama and Words of the Songs by 'Boz.' The Music by John Hullah". Of note, this performance has John Forster in the role of The Hon. Sparkins Fiam, with the stage manager John Pritt Harley, both of whom would go one to become close friends to the Inimiable. OCLC records only microform copies of this 23 December playbill. Rare, especially in commerce. Age-toning & staining [in right margin & verso] to paper. 2 small marginal tears, one in left margin, the second in bottom margin [no text affected]. A VG copy. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve 1st printing thus. Cf. Gimbel H856, for the Dec 22nd performance.