You are looking at an original piece of late 19th century sheet music - as described 

The Flying Machine Waltz

Harry Dacre

London Frank Dean & Co et al. Copyright 1894

12 pages including covers [2 blank pages], measures 260mm x 355mm

An attractive and unusual Victorian cover showing an early side by side tandem bicycle with feathered wings apparently flying. This fantasy / sci-fi image predates the Wright Brothers actual powered flight of 1903.

There are a great number of pieces of sheet music depicting all manner of aeronautics in the Bella C. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Sheet Music (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries), including one of the same name dated 1909 showing an actual viable machine but not this particular piece of music.

No copies currently shown on Worldcat - I am unable to trace any original examples currently offered for sale online Worldwide

Thank you for looking - increasingly scarce thus after 127 years

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