"Proteus; or, The Lightning Change Artist"

sheet music

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & SHEET MUSIC
C. W. Thompson & Co.; Fairchild, Blair; Brice, John Francis
USA, MA, Boston
1899
Paper
overall: 12-1/4 x 9-1/2 in.

Sheet music; "Proteus; or, The Lightning Change Artist"; music by Blair Fairchild, words by John Francis Brice, and published by C.W. Thompson & Co.; 100 pages; 23 songs and other musical items, from the "99 Hasty Pudding Play" (Harvard College); cover shows a drawn stern-quarter view of a fanciful galleon with "PROTEUS" and "'99 Hasty Pudding Play" written in ribbons (in the manner of long pennants), and a small reptile creature sitting in the lower left corner; cover inscribed with "R.P. Bellows" and "Geo. H. Walker & Co, Boston"; book is softbound; printed on front cover "'99 Hasty Pudding Play/ PROTEUS/ Music/ by/ Blair Fairchild/ and/ Others/ Words/ by/ John Francis Brice/ BOSTON/ C.W. THOMPSON & CO."; handwritten in pencil on top right corner "Marion Buckingham"; stamped at bottom of cover in blue ink "G. SCHIRMER, JR/ (Boston Music Co.)/ 26 WEST ST. - BOSTON."

2009.9.15