The Nightingale; A Choice Collection of Songs, Chants and Hymns, Designed for the Use of Juvenile Classes, Public Schools, and Seminaries; Containing also a Complete and Concise System of Elementary Instruction by PERKINS, W.O. & H.S - 1888

Boston: Oliver Ditson & Company. Fair with no dust jacket. 1860. Hardcover. Covers are heavily rubbed with much surface loss. Spine is missing each end. Half of rear blank page missing. Pages generally slightly foxed, more at ends. Writing on endpapers. Thin strip of dampstaining to upper edges of last approx. 30 pages. Dampstaining to top spine end corner of first approx. 50 pages. ; Oblong songbook with lyrics and music. .

Boston: C.H. Ditson and Co, 1860. Hard Cover. Fair. Illustrated paper covered boards with a leather backstrip. 5 ½ by 7 ¼ inches. 216 pp. A song book and collection of hymns, notable perhaps for an early print appearance of Dixie (given as Dixie's Land) by Dan Emmett (and attributed to him) on pages 200-201. Originating in blackface minstrelsy in the 1850s, the song became the unofficial anthem of the Confederacy during the Civil War (Wikipedia). FAIR/GOOD condition. Heavy deterioration and loss to the leather binding, rendering the front cover somewhat weakly attached, and the rear cover rather tenuously holding on. Moderate darkening, fading, scuffing, creasing and other wear to the covers. Minor soiling and staining. Heavy bumping, scuffing and rounding along the extremities. Paper peeled away on some sections of the rear cover. Text block weak but holding. Scattered foxing and minor staining throughout. Large owner's signature in pencil on one of the first pages.

Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co, 1860. Quarter Leather. Good. Oblong 5.25 x 7 in. 216 pp. Green paper boards printed in black with decorative titling and illustration of nightingale. Backed in brown leather. Heavy wear to boards and spine, especially at corners and edges of boards, leather at rear joint. Rear board starting, fragile. Interior toned with some soiling and dampstaining, previous owner's pencil marginalia at rear, being the lyrics to the popular temperance song, "Come Home, Father," (Henry Clay Work), in which a child longs for her absent father to stop drinking and return home. A student songbook, with notations and exercises. Full Title: The Nightingale; A Choice Collection of Songs, Chants and Hymns, Designed For the Use of Juvenile Classes, Public Schools, and Seminaries; Containing Also a Complete and Concise System of Elementary Instruction.

Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co.. Very Good+. 1860. Hardcover. Original 1860 publication rebound in blue buckram cloth with title in white lettering. Text tight, clean & intact. Complete and concise system of elementary instruction. X-Library: number on spine & perforated lettering on title page. Music, Song Book; Ex-Library; Oblong 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 216 pages .