# 15798
BLOCKLEY, John (composer); NORTON, Caroline Sheridan
[SHEET MUSIC] Love not : a ballad / the music composed by J. Blockley ; the poetry selected from The soorows of Rosalie, written by The Honble. Mrs Norton.
$300.00 AUD
Sydney : G. Hudson & Co., 377 Pitt Street North, [1849, or earlier]. Folio, disbound, with later paper spine, engraved cover with calligraphic lettering in a variety of fonts, 5 pp of music notation; a very good copy.
A scarce Sydney sheet music imprint from the pre-gold rush period. Only two copies of this edition are recorded in Australian collections: the National Library of Australia, in its Musica Australis collection, holds a copy of the “third edition” inscribed “Jane Elisabeth Boston July 23rd 1849”, which helps greatly in determining an approximate publication date; the State Library of New South Wales also holds a copy, to which it ascribes a broad date range of 1840 to 1860.