Author: Ditson and Co
Title: Minstel Songs Old and New: A Collection of World-Wide Famous Minstel and Plantation Songs
Description: Boston, Oliver Ditson, 1900. Decorated boards. Covers stained. Piece torn off bottom of first 20 pages with some loss of text. Pencil scribblings on front endpaper. A hardcover book in fair condition only. Scarce collection of American Negro music of the 19th century. Includes many of Stephen Foster's melodies. The sole illustration is on the book's front cover which contains a montage of scenes from Southern plantation life. .

Keywords: Music