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[New Zealand—Music] Fantastic Pair of Illustrated Autograph Albums Signed by Composers, Musicians, and Vocalists. Principally obtained in Oamaru, Dunedin, and Christchurch, New Zealand, 1900s—40s. Two volumes, leather, one stamped “Doris M.G. Williams” to front cover, containing hundreds of signatures of English musicians and composers touring New Zealand, including David Vaughan Thomas, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Ada Crossley, Adolph Mann, Andersen Tyrer, Leona Hogarth, Charles Edgar Ford, Ronald Chamberlain, Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, Andre Wagner Skalski, Claude Egerton Lowe, Ernest Toy (violinist), Kennerley and Clara Butt Rumford, Kenneth Neate, Ellis Wood, Marie Hootou, Antonia Dolores, A.C. Gifford, plus members of miscellaneous professional and amateur groups including Watkin Mills English Quartet (R. Watkin Mills, Edward Parlowitz, Edith Kirkwood, Harold Wilde), the Auckland Lyric Quartette (1920), The Dandies, Oamaru Amateur Operatic Society, Westminster Glee Party Boys, Knight Jeffries Co., and others. Includes personal inscriptions to the former owner, many of the entries accompanied by manuscript strains of music, pen and ink and watercolor drawings, literary and poetic quotations, maxims, and aphorisms. Should be seen.