ARTS THE: A good, interesting hardback bound 4to album containing over 60 signed clipped pieces, letterheads ...

ARTS THE: A good, interesting hardback bound 4to album containing over 60 signed clipped pieces, letterheads, A.Ls.S., musical quotations etc., by various famous individuals, most associated with the Arts (Classical Music, Literature, Art & Theatre etc.) at the end of the 19th century, including Anton Rubinstein (A.L.S., Ant. Rubinstein, one page, 8vo, Dresden, 5th October 1893, to Bock, in German), Moritz Moszkowski, Wilhelm Taubert, Arthur Quiller-Couch, S. R. Crockett (A.N.S., 'I hate giving autographs, but you ask nicely', 1895), Stanley J. Weyman, Adolf von Henselt, H. Rider Haggard, Leonard Borwick, Ferdinand Hiller, Hugo Thimig, Julius Benedict, Dr. Hans Paumgartner, Richard Wuerst, Robert Stawell Ball, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, John Everett Millais, Friedrich Kiel, Solomon J. Solomon, Frederic Leighton, Benjamin Leader, Luke Fildes, Arthur James Balfour, Anthony Hope Hawkins, Kate Greenaway, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Philip Calderon, Walter Besant, Ellen Terry, Edward J. Poynter, Frank Dicksee, Moriz Rosenthal, Alexander Mackenzie (A.M.Q.S.), Joseph Chamberlain, Willy Hess (A.M.Q.S., April 1895), Grant Allen (an amusing A.N.S., 'Why ask a busy man for his autograph? I won't give it. Grant Allen'), Eugen d'Albert (A.M.Q.S., April 1896), Edward Dannreuther (ink signature in the form of a musical quotation), George Grove, Siegfried Wagner (dated Bayreuth, 1896), Lilli Lehmann, Rosa Sucher, Lillian Henschel, Felix Moul (A.M.Q.S., Bayreuth, 1896), John Lavery, Jean de Reszke, Emile Sauret (A.M.Q.S., London, 1900), Eduard Schutt (A.L.S., incorporating two musical quotations, Bremen, 17th November 1896), Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Rudolf Lehmann, Johan Strauss II, Eduard Hanslick, Theodor Leschetizky (A.M.Q.S., Vienna, December 1896), Giacomo Meyerbeer, Ignaz Brull etc. The majority are laid down to the pages, some in multiples, and with some light age wear and minor staining etc. The half morocco bound album with the gilt stamped initials of the original owner, Grace Falcon, to the cover and with her pencil ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Lacking the spine and the boards (and some interior pages) loose, generally G £300-400