The American Musical Miscellany: A Collection of the Newest and Most Improved Songs, Set to Music.
Northampton, Massachusetts: By Andrew Wright for Daniel Wright and Company, 1798.
Price: $2,500.00
About the item
First edition. 300pp., with music printed from moveable type throughout. 8vo. Contemporary sheep, red morocco lettering piece. Worn at edge, splits starting at joints. Front endpaper renewed, chips at edges of title, repaired tear to dedication leaf. Star-Spangled Books B8; Evans 33294; Sabin 1163; Dichter and Shapiro pp. 34; Lowens 139.
Item #321399
First edition containing early American secular music, including patriotic and anti-slavery songs with tunes. Noted as containing the first American book publication of the tune to the Anacreontic song, which would become the basis for the Star Spangled Banner. This appears under the title "Adams and Liberty" which is written to the tune of the Anacreontic song.
