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undated but 1856. 32 pages. Original paper binding fair for age, edge wear/folding, some foxing. Contents fair for age, edge wear/loss/folding, staining to some pages. Front cover partly used as title page, rear & inside covers are all used for J. Alfred Novello's music adverts, First 11 pages "Some account of Evans's Hotel, of Covent Garden,and of the surrounding neighbourhood". Then the lyrics of 137 songs, some listing the singer or author etc. (no musical score). From the net; re Victorin private male clubs, at the more up-market end, were the Song-and-Supper Rooms (club-like institutions in their own right), such as the Coal Hole, the Cyder Cellars and Evans s in Covent Garden. Evans s clientele, in particular, was exclusively male, including Charles Mackey, W.M. Thackeray, John Leech etc. and the appreciation of good music was combined with the taking of food, drink, and smoking expensive cigars . Evans s Supper Rooms took music seriously, and its booklets printed information on the composers and the words of the glees and madrigals performed. And from the Daily News in 1879. Some time ago, Cremorne Gardens were closed, and the consequence was that the Argyll Rooms, the Criterion, and the Aquarium were crowded with the undesirable characters who had previously congregated there. Last year the Argyll Rooms lost their licence and we were promised order and quiet in the Haymarket and its approaches. This promise has not been fulfilled, and the revelry and not shift a few hundred yards eastward and re-appear in a worse form in Covent-garden, where Evan's Supper Rooms have become so notorious that a licence is now refused them, and other places of amusement have with difficulty obtained a renewal of their own. This item seems to be Very rare, as at time of listing found no other copy listed on net, though a number of items on Evan's Supper Room. Size: 17 x 25cm Aprox. Seller Inventory # 002368
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