The Musical Olio . . . to this Edition is Added a Number of Sublime Ancient Tunes; Together with a few Original Pieces, Never Before Published. The Second Edition, Improved and Enlarged.
New-London [Conn.]: Printed Typographically, by Samuel Green, 1811. Second edition. Oblong 8vo (5.5 x 9.5 inches), original sheep spine and sugar paper over millboard sides, [ii], 127, [1] pages. Front free endpaper not present; boards rubbed and a trifle cracked down the center (as one sees in oblong song books); some light staining; in very good condition. Item #22540
“As a psalmodist, he composed in both the indigenous New England idiom and the more florid style inspired by the English composer, Martin Madan. . . . N. H. Allen, a knowledgeable historian of Connecticut music writing early in this [20th] century, expressed particular regret at the meager musical opportunities open to Olmsted, calling his ‘the only original genius that America had ever produced’ in music” (Britton). This copy with a 2-page early ink autograph hymn and lyrics added to the rear free endpaper, the tenor part to the “New York” tune. American Imprints 23597; see Britton, American Sacred Music Imprints, 400 (which notes this 1811 second edition under the 1805 Northampton first edition). This issue with an added preliminary title leaf with the imprint of Hartford: Peter B. Gleason, 1811. Early ink ownership signature to the added title, pencil signature to the front pastedown.
Price: $750.00