The King's Breakfast
Score
1925 (published)
1925 (published)
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For voice and piano. Quarter-cloth case binding with illustrated paper over boards; illustrated dust jacket. Line block illustrations. 1 score (vi, 17, [1] pages).
Object details
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| Title | The King's Breakfast (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Case bound printed book with music printing and line block illustrations. |
| Brief description | Book, 'The King's Breakfast' by A. A. Milne, music by H. Fraser-Simson, illustrations by E.H. Shepard. Published in London by Methuen & Co., Ltd. in conjunction with Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, Ltd., 1925. NAL Pressmark: 863.AA.1713. |
| Physical description | For voice and piano. Quarter-cloth case binding with illustrated paper over boards; illustrated dust jacket. Line block illustrations. 1 score (vi, 17, [1] pages). |
| Gallery label | Music
Songbooks featuring Milne’s verses and hums followed soon after the books. Harold Fraser-Simson, a ‘fierce-looking man with a great grey moustache’, was the Milnes’ neighbour in Chelsea. He set the verses to music, first for his family’s private entertainment. The songs include instructions to sing, for example, ‘dreamily’ or ‘buzzingly’. ‘The King’s Breakfast’, as Milne explains in the published score, should be recited ‘on tip-toe’. George Baker made a popular recording of the hums, which featured on the BBC Radio’s Children’s Hour from the 1930s into the 1960s.
[Group label Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic, featuring this and several other music scores](09/12/2017 - 08/04/2018) |
| Credit line | Donated by Anne Renier and F.G. Renier |
| Object history | Donated by Anne Renier and F.G. Renier. Bookplate on upper pastedown reading: "From the Library of Anne Renier and F.G. Renier". |
| Other number | 863.AA.1713 - NAL Pressmark |
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| Library number | 38041800961310 |
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| Record created | October 28, 2016 |
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