Bradbury, William B. The Singing Bird; or Progressive Music Reader [Line of music] Designed to facilitate the introduction of Vocal Music in Schools and Academies. New-York: Ivison & Phinney | Stereotyped by Thomas B. Smith, 1852. First Edition. [8985]
Leather spine, yellow printed paper over card, front nearly detached, oblong 12.5 cm (5 x 7 1/2 inches). 176 pp., text complete and very good. Good. Hardcover.
"The plan, it will be perceived, is quite different from any of the author's former works. The Singing Bird is intended especially to render comparatively easy and pleasant the introduction of Vocal Music as a study, as well as a pastime, in schools, and seminaries, and juvenile classes." - Introduction.
With a signed provenance card from the collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.