Sheet Music- Come Home Father, Old Josey, The Quadrille of All Nations, Gen. Carrington's Home March, Merry Sleigh Bells, The Quadrille of All Nations, Mother's Bible, Jockey Hat and Feathers, A Home in the West, Dear Bygone Hours,

USA: Privately Printed/Limited Edition, 1870. Privately bound copy of Mostly American 19th century sheet music. All are arranged for piano and many have a vocal line. All are published between c1840 - c1870 in American cities. Bound in 3/4 morocco with a morocco label on the front cover with the name "M. & H. Dieker". The songs are: General Carrington's Home March, by Henryi Sherbrooke- 1863; Alexandria Waltz, by F. Rasche, 1845; Charles River Quick Step, by S. Knaebel- 1845; Cinderella Waltz, by Rossini- 1845; Six Popular Dances, by Andrien Talexy; National Scottish, by CHs. D' Albert- 1850; The Merry Sleigh Bells Polka, by Charles S. Brainard-1861; The Bridal March from the Grand Spectacle of Mazeppa, by J. Sprake- 1845; The Exhibition Quadrille, by Rule Britannia- 1850; Songs of the Hutchinson Family: My Mother's Bible, by Geo. Harris and Henry Russell; Jockey Hat and Feather, by Fred Wilson and W. H. Brockway- 1851; We Met by Chance, by F. Kucken; A Home in the West, J. M. Hubbard and Hubbard M. Smith- 1864; Dear by Gone Hours, by R. Albert and C. D. Kirk- 1852; Farewell Sweet Mother, by Stephen C. Foster- 1861; Come Home, Father, by Henry Clay Work- 1864; I Would I Were a Child Again or The Old Oak Tree, by H. T. Merrill- 1853; Pretty Blue Star! Ballad, by John Blockley- 1852; Dreaming Maiden Song, by Gen. A. Sanders Piatt and Mrs. O'Connell- 1866; Old Josy, by Wurzel- 1854; Forget Not the Loved Ones at Home, by I. B. Woodbury- 1850; Salut a' Marion: The Chamois Hunter, by H. Aug. Pond. - 1858. There are several beautiful pieces of cover art of which most are black & white. However, there is one handcolored picture before "The Exhibition Quadrille" that shows the Quadrille of All Nations with its dimensions. Endpages are wrinkled. There is a little soiling and general wear to the boards and spine. Raised bands with some gilt decoration on the spine. There is some light foxing that is intermittent. civil WAR: "General Carrington's March" is from the middle of the American Civil War. "Come Home, Father" is an anthem of the Temperance movement in which a Child sings in the middle of a bar, begging her father to come home. Also includes 3 handcopied sheets of music for 2 parts of the chorus of "Sherman's March to the Sea".. Half Morocco Leather. Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hardcover.