Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 332

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(MUSIC.) Janes, Walter. The Massachusetts Harmony, Consecrated to Devotion. Oblong 8vo, 1/4 calf, front joint worn, otherwise minor wear; paper flaw in bottom margin of final leaf, hinges split. Boston, 1803
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Walter Janes (1778-1827) was a composer from Holland, MA and later Ashford, CT. This volume was his first published work, and contains 54 compositions by American composers, all but one of them first printings, with the bulk of them by Janes. Britton and Lowens, American Sacred Music Imprints 286.