Manuscript music album.
[Thame, Oxfordshire: n.d., ca. 1830s].
Price: $1,000.00
About the item
[50] pp of manuscript hymns, responses and chants with four-part vocals and organ accompaniment. Oblong 4to. Bound in full black morocco, covers blind-stamped and tooled in gold to a panel design with wide rolls, stamped with the initials “S.E.W.” on the front cover and “W” with a crown on the rear cover. Provenance: Sophia Elizabeth Wykehanm, 1st Baroness Wenman of Thame Park (her monogram in gilt on the binding).
Item #257842
A musical notebook beautifully bound in the Regency style, belonging to Sophia Elizabeth Wykehanm, 1st Baroness Wenman of Thame Park (1790-1870). She was an early love interest of the future King WIlliam IV — when he later ascended the throne he revived the title of Baroness Wenman.
