The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-19

Sale Of the Effects of the Famous Music
Dealer-What They Consist OF.
On Monday next Thomas & Sons will dis
pose of the effects of that old music virtuoso,
the late George K. Blake, which are very
valuable, and possess au interest additional to
that attaching to their intrinsic value. James
Grant Osbourn has been for nearly two months
arranging the music plates and instruments of
the deceased and has given to the public cata-
logue embracing careful classification of all
the important articles. By It we discover that
Mr.. Blake, at the time of his death, was pos
sessed of ll96 plates of ballad music, l32 plates
OF 'Moore's HarmoniZed Songs" SO plates of
that poets Irish songs, and 81 plates of his "Har
monized Melodies" There are also in this
same group II plates of Mozart's songs.
There are, besides, 81 plates of Italian songs;
52 OF French and Spanish songs l6S of sacred
songs; 151 of select beauties for Spanish guitar;
III OF marches and quicksteps; 925 OF variations
of Mozart, Beethoven, Cristiani, Latour, Hewitt,
Herr, and others. There are "a overtures (277
pates) by Ogden, BQleldieu, Mercadante, Haydn,
Bellini, Rossini, Auber, Herold, and Mehul; 26S
plates of waltzes; 665 plates of rondos; 80 plates
of dances AL plates of cotillions and quadrlles;
446 plates of sonata music by Corsin, Dussek,
Hermann, Mozart, Nicholai, Plezel, Steibelt,
and Vonhal.
There are, again, piano exercises of 149
plates; % piano exercises for 4 and hands, of
25S plates; 327 plates for piano instruction; 1876
plates for vocal instruction; 81 plates for harp
instruction; 80 plates for violin, bugle, accor-
deon, guitar, ard clarionet instructions; aud 933
his own. There are about 200 plates of miscel-
| laneous music that could not be classified under
any of the preceding heads.
Then follows q classification of Blake's edition
| of Dr. Clarke Handel there being 90 plates of
| the "Acs and Gaatia," 68 of Judas Macca-
b@us," 60 of Dettingers "Te Deum, 4S OF the
| "Jubilate," 9S of "Alexander's Feast" 213 of
the Messiah" and TIA of saul" in all 765
! plates. There are 3Sl lots of sheet music, each
lot containing 200 pages. $40 pieces of old i'm
| ported music, and great lot of piano sonatas
| imported.
| Among the musical instruments are 1T flutes,
| 38 flies, 40 hageolettes, accordeous two dozen
| clarionettes and great assortment of concert
| horns, French horns, Kent bugles cornets,
! trumpets, trombones, and old German violins,
| imported fifty years ago, and great array of
materials and instruments for engraving music
The music plates number about ten thousand
| The title-page copper-plate pieces to the works
| of Handel, which are very fine are the work
of engravers celebrated in their day; the music
| plates were engraved by Mr.. Blake. The in
struction books are in excellent preservation
and embrace, besides the works of older authors
those of Hunten, Creamer, and La -Four.
The model of the first bridge built over the
Schuylkill at Market street. is in the collection.
and will be sold together with the veoclpede
constructed on the same principle as the modern
ones, and used by its maker, Mr.. Blake, fifty
| years ago.