[D-15]. The Banjo American Sketch Grotesque Fantasie

Author: GOTTSCHALK, Louis Moreau 1829-1869
Title: [D-15]. The Banjo American Sketch Grotesque Fantasie
Publication: New York: William Hall & Son [PN 3345], 1855

Description:

Folio. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [3]-15, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved. With decorative title incorporating banjos and a tambourine spelling out BANJO, engraved by J.C. Pearson, N.Y. With printed dedication to head: "To Richard Hoffman" and "Printed by J.H. Coulton & Co." to lower right corner. Price printed of "10" [cents] printed within a star.

With small circular blindstamp ("From Hidley's Library") to blank upper margin of title.

Disbound. Slightly worn; minor offsetting; title browned, a bit heavier to outer margin, with small chip to blank outer edge; final page with small stain to upper inner margin.

First Edition, probable first issue. Doyle p. 266. Offergeld RO 22, p. 15.

"The Banjo is one of Gottschalk's most virile compositions, using themes common to the spiritual Roll, Jordan, Roll and Foster's Camptown Races." Doyle p. 266.

Seller ID: 35036

Subject: Printed Music

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