1844 PARLOUR SONGSTER. Early American Romantic or Bawdy Songster with Original Songs. Commentary And it gave Bread by

And it gave Bread by Employment to the Artist and Labourer

slight losses at base and corners

Then served again from 1835 until his death in 1847

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

1844 PARLOUR SONGSTER. Early American Romantic or Bawdy Songster with Original Songs. Commentary And it gave Bread byA 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