Literary, Scientific and Mechanics’ Institution, Great Smith Street.

Name: Literary, Scientific and Mechanics’ Institution, Great Smith Street.
Author: [CITY OF WESTMINSTER].

Book Description

Rare flyer advertising an evening of songs, almost all with an American theme, at the premises of the institution which had been founded in 1837. The proceeds were to be spent on books for the Institution’s library. The first two parts of the concert include a song describing the horrors of the slave trade in America, inspired by Phillips’ visit to a slave market in 1844 other American inspired songs include The Falls of Niagara, The Bear Hunt, and The Pleasant Ohio. The third part includes an Irish song on The Widow Machree: ‘The popularity and fashion of serenading in Ireland; the odd mode of going about it; the strange instruments used, and the invariable mistakes that are twined nature round an Hibernian’s movement, render the art of serenading extremely ridiculous’.

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Not in OCLC or COPAC.

Author [CITY OF WESTMINSTER].

Date 1847

Publisher [London]: Hayes, printer, Dartmouth-st.

Condition Small 8vo, pp. [4]; a little spotted and dusted; previously folded.

Price: £85.00

Offered by Pickering & Chatto, Antiquarian Booksellers

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