1872 Nobody's Treasure Sheet Music by Frank Dumont | Signed J.E. Baker Cover Art | Victorian American Music Ephemera silk crepe scarf visible on the underside

visible on the underside

The publisher states that the portfolio originally contained 30 colour plates

like a squat amphora shape

Colourful illustration

1872 Nobody's Treasure Sheet Music by Frank Dumont | Signed J.E. Baker Cover Art | Victorian American Music Ephemera silk crepe scarf visible on the undersideIllustrated Victorian sheet music combines music, literature and graphic art into a single collectible, and few examples capture all three as effectively as this 1872 edition of Nobody's Treasure. Featuring a beautifully rendered cover signed by J. E. Bakeralmost certainly the American illustrator Joseph Edwin Baker (18371914), celebrated for his portrait of Abraham Lincoln and numerous Civil War era illustrationsthis scarce publication is an