SULLIVAN MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. I. 'Patience'; 1881. Autograph full score, in ink. First performed at the Opera Comique, 23 April 1881. ff. i+201. Original pencil pagination on rectos, odd numbers only. 340 x 250mm.
SULLIVAN MANUSCRIPTS: scores of the comic operas 'Patience' and 'The Gondoliers' by Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan, to libretti by Sir William Schwenck Gilbert; 1881, 1889. The papers of W. S. Gilbert are Add. 49289-49353. The scores are discussed in P. M. Cadell, 'Patience and The Gondoliers', BMQ (1967-1968)
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Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan, composer: Music: Scores of 'Patience' and 'The Gondoliers' by Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan: 1881, 1889: Autogr. and copy.
SULLIVAN MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. II. 'Patience'; 1881. Full score in ink. Fair copy. ff. 193. Original pagination in ink. 342 x 265mm. Binding in green cloth, brown half morocco, with marbled end-papers.
SULLIVAN MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. III. 'The Gondoliers'; 1889. Autograph full score, in ink. First performed at the Savoy Theatre, 7 Dec. 1889. ff. 222. Original pagination in pencil 1-30 through ff. 1-17. 265 x 340mm. Green half morocco and cloth binding, with marbled end-papers.