CONCERT IN HONOUR OF ALFRED OF EDINBURGH AND HIS NEW WIFE MARIE OF RUSSIA [VICTORIA (1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain)]

Fine Printed Programme of Music by the Queen's Private Band, following the State Banquet in honour of her son Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, and Marie, second daughter of Alexander II of Russia, after their return from their wedding on 23rd January in St Petersburg, printed in gold, silver, red and blue, in a blind-embossed gothic lined frame of flower and leaf ornaments, partly pierced, displaying a fine royal arms with supporters and mottoes, and, in gold and silver repeated left and right, M[arie] A[lexandrovna] under a Princess's coronet with a Russian crown in front, the music includes 'The Duchess of Edinburgh's March' by W.G. Cusins (1833-1893, from 1870 Master of the Queen's Musick, knighted 1892), a fantasia from Glinka's Kamarinskaya, and the Entracte and Epithalamium from Lohengrin, printed by Ortner & Houle, (Heraldic Engravers to the Queen), 3 St James's Street, S.W., 1 side 4to and conjugate blank, (State Drawing Room), Windsor Castle, for Monday Evening, 9th March a few extremely faint brown spots, otherwise excellent



Item Date:  1874

Stock No:  56434      £225

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