The forty thieves Sheet music for piano and voice titled “The forty thieves” appearing as three folio sheets (12 pages total). A central illustration on the cover depicts, in lithograph, an eastern scene in which two men, one wearing an eyepatch and carrying a sword appear to be having a discussion across a donkey laden with baskets that is held in-between. There are four men with spears looking on from behind. A caption below reads, ‘By Cassim’s donkey left outside, the robbers guess some wrong’. Around the central illustration are several others depicting variously, Sonnambula (sic), Forty thieves, Lord Lovel, The lost child, MacBeth, Alladin (sic) and Alonzo the Brave. No date