The Popular National Songster, with Lucy O'Neal and Dan Tucker' s Delight, Containing A Choice Collection of the Most Admired, Patriotic Comic, Irish, Negro, and Sentimental Songs. Woodcut frontispiece and 60 engraved illustrations. 18mo, original

The Popular National Songster, with Lucy O'Neal and Dan Tucker' s Delight, Containing A Choice Collection of the Most Admired, Patriotic Comic, Irish, Negro, and Sentimental Songs. Woodcut frontispiece and 60 engraved illustrations. 18mo, original straight-grain black morocco spine deco-ratively gilt-stamped. Philadelphia: John B. Perry, 1847 E200/300 FIRST EDITION. Contains 40 pages of "Negro Songs," such as "Ching a Ring Chaw," which begins: "Broda let us lebe Buckra lan for Hayte/dar we be recebed as grand as Lafayette." The half-title reads "Star Songster." Sabin (90496) lists that title but gives a date as 186?.