1860 The Nightingale, Songs & Hymns, early printing of "Dixie Land" shaped note NJ: Present Truth Publishers

NJ: Present Truth Publishers

Those illustrating the letters of the alphabet appear to be earlier Victorian-era woodcuts

Along with the printing business he was the first person to introduce anthracite coal to the United States

The English people are as little disposed now as they were a couple of hundred years since

Brown cloth decorated in bright gilt

1860 The Nightingale, Songs & Hymns, early printing of "Dixie Land" shaped note NJ: Present Truth PublishersPerkins, W. O.; Perkins, H. S. The Nightingale; A Choice Collection of Songs, Chants and Hymns, designed for the use of Juvenile Classes, Public Schools, and Seminaries; containing also a Complete and Concise System of Elementary Instruction. Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., (1860). [11317] Leather spine with green printed paper boards, oblong 7 3 7 x 7 1 4 inches, joints cracked and sometime filled in with glue or paste, with the boards now nearly