Perkins, T. E. The Sunday School Banner, A Collection of Hymns and Tunes, designed for Sabbath Schools, Sabbath School Concerts, Anniversaries, Social Meetings and the Family Circle. New York: Wm. B. Bradbury, 1865. First Edition. [11140]
Black cloth spine with marbled blue paper over card, small oblong 4 3/4 x 6 inches, lacks the free end papers. 128 clean pages, Good. Hardcover.
125 selections; the music is in four parts, round notes.
The first song is by "Miss Fanny Crosby."
Theodore Edson Perkins (1831-1912), b. Poughkeepsie, NY. His father was a Baptist pastor and the family of ten brothers and sisters were a group of musically gifted singers and musicians. Theodore became a music teacher at Madison (now Colgate) University in 1851. He continued to teach music at other places and developed a friendship with Drs. Lowell Mason and George F. Root, who encouraged him in his work. Perkins became the music director of several prominent churches in New York City and in Philadelphia. He was a life-long student of the voice, a music composer, and he edited some thirty-four books of church music. He was a friend of Fanny J. Crosby for over forty years and promoted her songs in his music books.
