Green cloth with gilt titles. Contains foldout view of Hampton with one-inch tear on one fold. Some edge, corner and surface wear but still square and securely bound. This is a well-known chronicle of Hampton Institute (originally Hampton Normal and Industrial Institute, now Hampton University) located near Hampton Roads Virginia by two professors. The Institute was originally an African-American college and the authors were professors there. The last 85 pages are arrangements of African-American songs by the Chairnan of the music department at the college. Interesting bookplate of Dion A. Stams, Sr. On front pastedown. Stams was an African-American book collector from New York. This plate, which is a copy, is dated 1969. (Interestingly, we once had a Carter Woodson book that had a color bookplate for Stams that may have been the original from which this copy was produced. ) Blockson 5958. ; Foldout panoramic engraving of Hampton Institute. ; B&W Illustration; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages
Title: Hampton and its Students With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs Arranged by Thomas P. Fenner
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Location Published: New York City, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1874
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket
Categories: African - American Paper
Seller ID: 13977
Keywords: virginia south african - american black negro music