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[CIRCUS MUSIC] A SELECTION OF FAVORITE AIRS AS PERFORMED AT THE ROYAL CIRCUS EDINR. & SADDLERS WELLS LONDON ADAPTED FOR THE HARPSICHORD OR PIANO FORTE. Edinburgh: Stewart & Co., ca. 1795. FIRST EDITION. Marbled boards with gilt-lettered spine label. Each piece of music reproduces a series of short separately titled “circus tunes” used to accompany a host of acts for this early English circus, among them tight and slack rope walkers, Mr. Sutton, Mr. Ricketts (the horseman), the clown Pietro Bologna, and many others. Folio. Included is one page of Mr. Jay’s holographic notes on the music.
Sold together with: A Selection of Favourite Waltzes Composed for the Charlston [sic?] Circus and Adapted for the Piano Forte. Boston: Published and Sold by G. Graupner, ca. 1793. Loose engraved sheets as issued. 8pp. Folio. With contemporary penciled notations above the notes; — Smith, Theodore. The Celebrated Music which is on the Organ at Mr. Coxes Museum Spring Garden… London: Printed by Welcker in Gerrard Street, ca. 1772. Full blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Engraved title, four pages of music used to accompany this museum where automatons and Oblong 4to. A RARE GROUPING of early circus and related sheet music.