(MUSIC) The American Songster Being a Select Collection of t

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(MUSIC.) The American Songster: Being a Select Collection of the Most Celebrated American, English, Scotch and Irish Songs. xii, 204 pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, moderate wear; lacks free endpapers, a bit of the title, the first table of contents leaf, leaves Aa2-3, and about a third of the final leaf, other contents worn, moderate finger-soiling; early inscriptions on pastedowns, title page, and elsewhere. New York: Samuel Campbell, 1788

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The introduction boasts that "a Collection of the best Modern Songs, not only the production of America, but likewise those of Britain, has never before appeared on this continent. . . . Here will be found a number of original Songs, the production of the American Muse." The first song is "On the Birth of his Excell. George Washington, Esq., by a Citizen of Virginia"--to the tune of "God Save the King," and indexed by its first line, "Hail Godlike Washington!" 5 in ESTC. Evans 20930; Sabin 1220. None traced at auction, though Goodspeed offered one at retail in 1938.