The sheet music and lyrics of ‘The Dispensary Doctor’ in Frankenstein, or The Vampire’s Victim the 1887 burlesque production of Frankenstein. ‘The Dispensary Doctor’ was sung by E. J. Lonen, who plays Visconti the Viscount Vampire, and written and composed by Robert Martin, who wrote “incidental songs” for the play.
Rare. OCLC/ Library hub list only three copies held institutionally world-wide, all three in the UK, University Oxford Library, National Library of Scotland, and the British Library.
The full score was also published by Jeffery’s and is similarly rare, with five copies held world-wide, at University Oxford Library, University of Glasgow Library, the British Library, Stanford University Library, and Harvard University. There was no publication of the text, but The British Library holds the typescript licensed for performance by the Office of the Lord Chamberlain on 19 December 1887.
A very good copy, with tape reinforcement along the spine, and trimmed along the bottom edge with some loss of text only effecting the front cover. .
