Mar 31, 2016 - Sale 2408

Sale 2408 - Lot 11

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--MUSIC.) HOWARD, W. The Negro's Lamentation, a Fashionable Ballad with Accompaniment for Harp or Piano Forte. Folio sheet, folded to form four pages, engraved on two sides; signs of removal from an album at the fold. [London:] Fentum, circa 1800

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A common subject for abolitionist poetry, music etc. In addition to the harp of pianoforte accompaniment, tambourine is suggested, as it seems to be for other publications of this house.