Author: STAFFORD (William C.):
Title: A History of Music.
Description: Edinburgh: Printed for Constable and Co. and Hurst, Chance, and Co., London, 1830. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, pp. viii, 387 [388 blank], engraved title, 3 leaves adverts preceding title-page, additional paper label for spine tipped in before adverts, uncut and unopened, contemporary cloth, paper label (rubbed) on spine; small tear at top of title-page from careless opening of leaf, edges a little soiled. Volume 52 of Constable's Miscellany; Stafford manages two pages on American music, mentioning the songs of American Indians; in New York, the author heard "some very pleasing airs, composed by native Americans, whose names have escaped our memory."

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