1855 · New York
by GOTTSCHALK, Louis Moreau 1829-1869
New York: William Hall & Son [PN 3345], 1855. 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. (Inventory #: 35036)
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. (Inventory #: 35036)