Woodbury & Hastings. The Chorus Glee Book 1850 oblong

Woodbury, I. B.; Hastings, Thomas. The Chorus Glee Book, consisting of Glees, Quartets, Trios, Duets, and Solos, mostly selected and arranged from the best European and American Composers. New York: Huntington and Savage, 1850. First Edition. [10610] Leather spine with pink printed boards, large oblong 6 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches, lacks all front and back free end papers (blanks), binding is tight. 96 clean pp., signature of Lucretia Allen on tp, list of contents on verso of tp. Very good. Hardcover.About 100 songs with the music in round notes. Isaac Baker Woodbury (1819-1858), b. Beverly, Mass.; d. Columbia, South Carolina. After studying music at Boston, London, and Paris, at the age of nineteen he began teaching music in Boston, traveling throughout New England. After about six years he took up residence at Bellow Falls, Vermont, where he organized the New Hampshire and Vermont Musical Association. "In 1849 he settled in New York City where he directed the music at the Rutgers Street Chur