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Important NOVELLO music manuscript, WW II + book

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"Important Ivor NOVELLO music manuscript, WW II","

Ivor NOVELLO (1893-1951). Autograph Musical Manuscript signed of the song “We’ll Remember”, notated in faded black ink on three stave system, signed and inscribed by the composer at the head of the page (‘ ""We’ll Remember’ / Ivor Novello’), the vocal line texted. 1 page, folio (c.30.7 x 23.8cm), [no place or date, but 1939], fading, toned, custom matt with manuscript titling beneath, framed and glazed.

[with:] Ivor, NOVELLO, Cecil BEATON, Edmund DULAC, Rex WHISTLER, A.A. MILNE, Daphne Du MAURIER, C. DAY LEWIS, and others (contributors). The Queen’s Book of the Red Cross. [London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [November 1939]. Small quarto (9 ¾ x 7 1/4inches). 1p. facsimile letter from Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, 1p. facsimile of Novello’s musical manuscript ‘We’ll Remember” facing p. 208, numerous other plates, some colored, after Dulac, Whistler, Mabel Lucy Attwell and others, extra-illustrated with a machine-print photograph of Novello corner-mounted on the front free endpaper. Publisher’s cream buckram, upper cover and spine blocked in gilt and red (light cockling to cloth [see images], otherwise excellent), contained in original box (archival tape repairs to box)

Novello was ""until the advent of Andrew Lloyd Webber, the 20th-century's most consistently successful composer of British musicals"" (Grove). His best-known individual song was the WW1 anthem ‘Keep the Home Fires Burning’ written in 1914 when Novello was 21. With the present work, Novello seems to have hoped to revisit the sentiment and success of the earlier composition and provide the ‘theme tune’ to the second World War? I presume that the present original manuscript was sold in 1939 or shortly afterwards as part of the fund raising drive for the Red Cross – it is clearly the ‘artwork’ from which the facsimile was made.

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Res: 600 1000-1500

"Important Ivor NOVELLO music manuscript, WW II","

Ivor NOVELLO (1893-1951). Autograph Musical Manuscript signed of the song “We’ll Remember”, notated in faded black ink on three stave system, signed and inscribed by the composer at the head of the page (‘ ""We’ll Remember’ / Ivor Novello’), the vocal line texted. 1 page, folio (c.30.7 x 23.8cm), [no place or date, but 1939], fading, toned, custom matt with manuscript titling beneath, framed and glazed.

[with:] Ivor, NOVELLO, Cecil BEATON, Edmund DULAC, Rex WHISTLER, A.A. MILNE, Daphne Du MAURIER, C. DAY LEWIS, and others (contributors). The Queen’s Book of the Red Cross. [London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [November 1939]. Small quarto (9 ¾ x 7 1/4inches). 1p. facsimile letter from Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, 1p. facsimile of Novello’s musical manuscript ‘We’ll Remember” facing p. 208, numerous other plates, some colored, after Dulac, Whistler, Mabel Lucy Attwell and others, extra-illustrated with a machine-print photograph of Novello corner-mounted on the front free endpaper. Publisher’s cream buckram, upper cover and spine blocked in gilt and red (light cockling to cloth [see images], otherwise excellent), contained in original box (archival tape repairs to box)

Novello was ""until the advent of Andrew Lloyd Webber, the 20th-century's most consistently successful composer of British musicals"" (Grove). His best-known individual song was the WW1 anthem ‘Keep the Home Fires Burning’ written in 1914 when Novello was 21. With the present work, Novello seems to have hoped to revisit the sentiment and success of the earlier composition and provide the ‘theme tune’ to the second World War? I presume that the present original manuscript was sold in 1939 or shortly afterwards as part of the fund raising drive for the Red Cross – it is clearly the ‘artwork’ from which the facsimile was made.

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