1844 PARLOUR SONGSTER. Early American Romantic or Bawdy Songster with Original Songs. Commentary slight losses at base and

slight losses at base and corners

Early edition of what Hodder and Stoughton considered to be the most enduring and accessible of Spurgeon's sermons

After the influential Ruebush & Kieffer Publishing Company began using his notehead shapes around 1876 (previously they used Funk's shapes)

Published by Request for Gratuitous Distribution

1844 PARLOUR SONGSTER. Early American Romantic or Bawdy Songster with Original Songs. Commentary slight losses at base andA very scarce romantic songster from the popular presses of Turner & Fisher. Located in Manhattan at 74 Chatham Street in New York, this area of the city was a hub of all manner of popular entertainment. It boasted hotels, saloons, theaters, and eventually vaudeville. It was also contained Printing House Square, a primary publisher of cheap ephemera, musical and otherwise. Then there was the underbelly and night life; the entire corridor was marked by