Four Indian Love Lyrics [Voice and piano]

London: Boosey & Co. Ltd. [PN H.3 817], 1902. Quarto (305 x 235 mm). Original publisher's light green printed wrappers with titling to upper, publisher's advertisements to lower. 1f., 23 [i] (publisher's advertisement) pp.

Together with:
Stars of the Desert Four More Indian Love Lyrics by Laurence Hope Set to Music by Amy Woodforde-Finden. I Stars of the Desert II You are all that is lovely III The Rice was under Water IV Fate ... Price 3/=net ($1.00). London ... New York: Boosey & Co., [PN H. 7355], ©1911. Quarto (305 x 250 mm). Original publisher's dark ivory printed wrappers with titling to upper, publisher's advertisementx to lower. 2 ff., 27, [i] (publisher's advertisement) pp. With Finden's facsimile signature handstamp to title.

Wrappers slightly worn; minor soiling and chipping; handstamps to uppers: "Maxwell & Sons, Ltd..."; "George White Pianos, Music, Tuning..." Light uniform browning; very occasional foxing. "[Amy Woodforde-Finden] began composing at an early age and was a pupil of Carl Schloesser and Amy Horrocks. Under the name Amy Ward she wrote some early songs which received little notice. In 1894 she married Woodforde-Finden of the Indian Army and for some years lived in India; when her Four Indian Love Lyrics (from Laurence Hope's The Garden of Kama) were published privately in 1902, their success, particularly that of the Kashmiri Song ('Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar'), gained her a regular publisher and a faithful public. She followed these songs with A Lover in Damascus (Charles Hanson Towne; 1904), On Jhelum River (Frederick John Fraser; 1905), The Pagoda of Flowers (Fraser; 1907) and other collections, as well as many individual songs, often with oriental subjects and notable for their fluent, sentimental melody." Andrew Lamb in Grove Music Online.