Sheet music
Hart and Co.
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
Measurements
255 mm (width); 356 mm (height)
Place of origin
Paternoster Road, 22
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 666676
Summary
A cream coloured musical score printed in black ink, consisting of two pages. Printed on the front page is 'Nursery Rhymes First Selection' surrounded by black printed line drawings of nursery rhyme figures. The figures are of a dame, two children, a fox and some birds. Among the musical staves are other line drawings to illustrate the pieces. The score is torn and repaired with paper tape.
Marks and inscriptions
On the bottom of the front cover, in an oval shape: 'BRITTENS' BOOK AND MUSIC STORES/ 70, HIGH [STREET], DUDLEY.' On the top of the front cover: 'V. Holdcroft.'
Makers and roles
Hart and Co., engraver and publisher