Book/Item: Song of the Graduates

Author/Editors: Words by a Cadet, Music by Apelles

Publisher: Firth, Pond & Company

Publishing Date or Period: 1852

Edition: First

LOC/ISBN: None

Pages:Approx. 4

Approximate Size: Small Folio 13" X 9 3/4"

Cover: N/A

Dustjacket Description & Condition: N/A

Book/Item Description: Last auctioned by Swann Galleries in December 2016 with an estimate of $1,200-$1,800, see pictures. Whistler, James Abbot McNeill, after.  United States Military Academy.  Song of the Graduates.  Music by Apelles, Words by a Cadet.  New York. {Firth, Pond & Co.} 1852.  Whistler's earliest lithographic work, depicting a lieutenant and a plebe in full uniform, embracing with clasped hands, as a subtle view of the Hudson River recedes into the background. "And to West Point we'll bid adieu, its scenes, its joys, and cares, we go to meet, whate'er of these, futurity prepares." Early American Sheet Music Page 100 Plate 23. GA residents pay sales tax. eBay may charge taxes for certain states.

Book/Item Condition: Lithographed pictorial title wrapper, 4 pages of sheet music.  Small folio, 13" X 9 3/4" inches, edges lightly toned, folio hinges reinforced with archival tissue, imprint partially trimmed as lower margin (as seen with examples in John Carter Brown Library, Metropolitan Museum and National Gallery of Art). 4 small closed tears with archival tape. Professionally removed from book of period sheet music. Ink Burn on last 2 blank pages with imprint of other sheet music in book. Other large piece of archival tape at hinge with prior information. Very Dirty at edges.


 

 

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