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Antique American music collection – Winner’s Music of the Times
Arranged by Sep. (Septimus) Winner
Published by Wm. A. Pond & Co., 547 Broadway, New York
Copyright 1857 by Firth, Pond & Co. (this is a later printing by Wm. A. Pond & Co., ca. 1864).
Scarce mid-19th-century collection of popular polkas, waltzes, cotillions, quadrilles, schottisches, marches, reels, jigs, ballad airs, and opera melodies, arranged in an easy manner as solos, duets, trios, and quartettes.
Notable contents include many Stephen Foster songs, among them:
• Jeanie with the Light-Brown Hair
• Old Folks at Home
• My Old Kentucky Home
• Nelly Bly
• Old Dog Tray
• Maggie by My Side
• Willie We Have Missed You
• Gentle Annie
…plus opera airs from Lucia di Lammermoor and La Traviata, and numerous period dances.
Original paper wrappers with engraved title page featuring musicians; cloth spine. 79 pages of music. Back cover has the publisher’s instrument and music catalog ads (this book was originally priced at 75¢).
Condition
• Typical age wear for a 160+ year old paperbound volume
• Foxing and toning throughout
• Edge wear, chipping, and soiling to the wrappers
• Cloth spine present but worn
• Pages are complete and music is fully legible
• Binding still holds the pages together
A hard-to-find title by the well-known 19th-century songwriter and arranger Septimus Winner (composer of “Listen to the Mocking Bird”). Attractive example of pre-Civil War / Civil War-era American popular music publishing.
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