Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia

‘The Taverners Song’. Original manuscript music score with libretto by Percy S. Robinson, sold with a typewritten sheet with the words to the music from Percy S. Robinson, Balham, London. Sold with ‘Down Went The Wicket!’. Humourous Cricket Song. Written by Rowland Colborn and composed by A.G. Colborn. Dedicated by permission to Dr. W.G. Grace’. c1890/1900. Original six page printed sheet music with cover featuring W.G. Grace, full length, at the wicket wearing M.C.C. cap. Plus a three page copy of a manuscript music score of the same cricket song with accompanying letter from a J.H. Clark to A.D. Taylor dated July 1912 regarding the sheet music and music score. The sheet music bound in a green file with title to front board. Finally a handwritten song entitled ‘England v Australia on Cavalry Club, Piccadilly headed paper, a song regarding the ashes’. Signed ‘Senex (member of the M.C.C., for 50 years)’. Previously sold at the M.C.C. Bicentenary Auction 1987 as lot 355. Good condition