Apr 08, 2014 - Sale 2344

Sale 2344 - Lot 55

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(CHILDREN'S BOOKS.) Welsh, [Mary Ann Wilson]. The Musical Alphabet. Sheet music with 31 lithographic illustrations. [4] pages. Folio, 13 x 9 1/4 inches, in early patterned wrappers with partial closed tear along fold, minor wear; contents clean and crisp. New York: E.S. Mesier, 28 Wall Street, circa 1830

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Each letter is illustrated by one or more vignettes. Concludes with the couplet "Now I have sung the alphabet through / All that I ask is a kiss from you." One copy in OCLC. The similarly scarce London edition is listed in Osborne, page 689.