Confederate Sheet Music
The Exotics. Flowers of Song Transplanted to Southern Soil ... O Give Me A Home by the Sea ... Words and Music by E. A. Hosmer.
Augusta: Published by Blackmar & Bro. [and others] ... B. Duncan & Co. Lith. Columbia SC, [1861-1864].
Price: $150.00
About the item
3pp., with pictorial floral-themed advertisement printed in green on the upper cover for sheet music being sold by Southern printers. Bifolium. Confederate Sheet Music. Unbound, minor toning. Crandall 3697; Parrish & Willingham 7309.
Item #353880
Hosmer's song, with music and lyrics, comprises the inner two pages; the pictorial cover printed in green advertises 37 songs published by Blackmar in Augusta, as well as publishers in Richmond, Charleston, Macon, Columbia, Montgomery and Selma. The lithographer B. Duncan closed his shop in Columbia in 1864.
