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Zustand: New. In.

Half-Leather. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Eighth Edition. Eighth edition. Oblong 4to. 357 p. Leather spine with printed paper-covered boards. An interesting collection of church music, published under the sanction of the Boston Academy of Music, including some compositions never before published. Pencil notations and drawings inside front and rear boards. Title page and half of last page of the index is missing. Boards quite worn and rubbed. Leather spine scuffed and chipped at head and tail. Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 1839 J. H. Wilkins and R. B. Carter edition. Brown cloth boards with gild design on front cover with gilt letting on spine. Unmarked with the exception of a nameplate on the front endpaper and two other minor markings. Pages have absorbed a mild incense. Pages yellowed from age with foxing and wear on edges. Cover does not have a dust jacket. Cover has wear and bumping on corners. More than half of the spine on the front cover side is split from binding but still attatched. Top edge of spine has been stripped down to the edge of the binding. Some scuffs, discoloration, and wear on the front cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Third edition. Oblong 8vo, 304 pages, calf-backed printed boards, needs rebacking. The greater number of pieces are either harmonized for the first time, or altogether newly arranged. A few were composed expressly for this work. The authors were professors at the Boston Academy of Music.

Half-Leather. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Presumed first edition. Oblong 4to. Leather spine with printed paper-covered boards. 350 p. An interesting collection of church music, published under the sanction of the Boston Academy of Music, including some compositions never before published. Pencil notations inside front and rear boards. Half of last page of the metrical table is missing. Boards quite worn and rubbed. Leather spine scuffed and chipped at head and tail. Title page and first page creased. One line of handwritten music is pinned onto the first page of the modern psalmist. Good. RARE.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Illustrated (illustrator). First American Edition. First American Edition. 8vo. New cloth binding, gilt titles and decoration, 505 pp. SIGNATURE OF SAMUEL HOOPER ("S. Hooper") to second free front endpaper. Rare hand-color frontispiece, protective tissue. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Samuel Hooper, a Representative from Massachusetts was born in Marblehead, Mass., February 3, 1808; attended the common schools; employed as agent for an importing firm and traveled extensively in foreign countries until 1832, when he engaged in the importing business in Boston, Mass., and later in the iron business; member of the State house of representatives 1851-1853; served in the State senate in 1858; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Appleton; reelected to the Thirty-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from December 2, 1861, until his death; chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Forty-first Congress), Committee on Banking and Currency (Forty-second Congress), Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures (Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1874; died in Washington, D.C., February 14, 1875. William Gardiner (1770-1853), composer and author, was born in Leicester on 15 March 1770. His father, a Leicester manufacturer, was an amateur musician and composed at least one hymn tune (preserved in the first volume of his son's Sacred Melodies, 1812), yet he did little to encourage William's precocious talents, and judged that the smallest possible amount of general knowledge would be sufficient for a career in the hosiery trade. However, the young Gardiner's enquiring mind led him to the meetings of the Adelphi Philosophical Society, formed in Leicester by Richard Phillips. He wrote some striking papers for the society, including 'Whether all the celestial bodies naturally attract each other?', 'What are those bodies called comets?', and 'On matter and its properties'. In 1790, the second year of the society's existence, this gathering of 'philosophical infants' (fourteen out of the seventeen members were under twenty-one) was prohibited by the authorities on account of its political radicalism.The 'Music of Nature, an attempt to prove that what is passionate and pleasing in the art of singing, speaking, and performing upon musical instruments is derived from the sounds of the animated world, with illustrations' (1832), is a pleasant book of opinions, anecdotes, and historical scraps, but hardly successful in proving by illustration the conscious or unconscious reference by great composers to natural cries. As a precursor of modern attempts to combine the scientific with the artistic spirit, it has its place in musical history. [DNB].

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 9-216; original olive-green cloth; decorative blind-stamping on covers; faded gilt lettering on spine; spine extremities a bit chipped; front hinge cracked; corners scuffed; otherwise good and sound. A collection of vignettes intended to educate young women on virtuous behavior. Mrs. A. J. Graves was also the author of Woman in America Being an Examination Into the Moral and Intellectual Condition of American Female Society. American Imprints 44-2760; Sabin 28345.