Howe's School For The Violin...; Containing New and Complete Instructions for the Violin, with a Large Collection of Favorite Marches, Quick-Steps, Waltzes, Hornpipes, Contra Dances, Songs, and Six Setts of Cotillions
New York: Huntington & Savage, 1843. First edition. Softcover. Exceedingly scarce. Oblong in printed paper wraps over green cloth spine. 56 pp. with index. Rear wrap is adverts for instrumental music books. Illustrated with musical examples in the instructional section. With one to four lines of violin scores for numerous popular pieces of the day. Laid in is an original musical manuscript for a piece titled "Duette", three sides, with folds and repairs. Soiling to wraps an with chipping about the edges and rounding to the corners . We find only one example of this publication, being in the Library of Congress but that copy is undated and probably later, Oliver Ditson being the publisher. Good. Item #E17157
Price: $400.00