The Pestalozzian School Song Book ....

Boston: George Reed, 1856. Later Prtg.. Original calf backed printed blue paper over paste paper boards.. Good; some wear to the front cover that is wanting a portion of the printed surface; rear endpaper excised.. Oblong 8vo, 224 pp. (rear cover is a printed advertisement for Reed's other music books).

Pratt was a music teacher in Mass.. The book offered here is a device for teaching music; the first 100 pages of text are devoted to the reading of music and composition. The balance is a song book. One supposes that the author invokes the name of the great educator in the title to emphasize the fact that the book is a teaching device. Early portions of the text do indeed follow the masters mathematical instruction here converted to scales.