Juvenile Oratorios: A Collection of Songs designed for Floral and other Concerts

Johnson, J. C. Juvenile Oratorios: A Collection of Songs, designed for Floral and other Concerts, Juvenile Classes, School, &c. The Festival of the Rose; The Indian Summer; The Children of Jerusalem. Boston: Wilkins, Carter, and Company, 1851. [10592] Copyright 1849. Leather spine with printed paper boards, small oblong 4 1/4 x 7 inches, edges worn with slight loss of paper, joints very good. Lacks the front and back free end papers (blanks). 176 unmarked pp., light foxing. Good. Hardcover. "The unusual, and almost unprecedented popularity to which floral concerts have attained, is sufficient apology for the appearance of a book designed for them and for juvenile classes in general. The author, the originator of this kind of exhibition, first gave a concert with floral decorations in 1843, and in 1846 brought forward a May Festival, and an Autumnal Festival, the music to the former of which has been published, and has been performed with much acceptance in many places. "The three o