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London, D'Alcorn of Oxford Street. 1866. With a full colour lithograph cover inset portrait of the performer Arthur Lloyd by C. Taylor. Arthur Lloyd(1839-1904) originally worked the Scottish Music Halls and appeared first in London in 1862. His most famous self penned songs was Not for Joseph and Married to the Mermaid. He was also a producer, and an impresario and appeared alongside Jolly Nash for the Prince of Wales in 1862 (a first for music hall). Unlike many performers he died a wealthy man. One of his songs-Diddle diddle dumpling my son John (1882) became a standard nursery rhyme for almost 100 years.The publisher D'Alcorn owned in excess of 1,500 comic songs as well as a catalogue of waltzes and light opera all of which he auctioned off upon his retirement in 1879.Folio size with music. Condition very good. Superb lithograph of a very famous song and on this occasion the polka version of that tune .
