Musical Monitor, or New-York Collection of Church Music: to which is prefixed, the Elementary Class-Book, being an Introduction to the Science of Music, arranged and systematised by William J. Edson. Together with a choice collection of psalm and hymn tunes, set pieces, and anthems, adapted to public woship... Third revised edition, enlarged and improved
- Ithaca: A.P. Searing & Co, 1824
Ithaca: A.P. Searing & Co, 1824. Quarter dark brown leather with paper boards, leather label with titling gilt to spine. 1f. (recto title, verso copyright), 1f. (recto preface, verso "Dictionary of Musical Terms"), 33, ii-[iv], [33]-231, [i] (index) pp.
Contemporary ownership signature and several bars of manuscript musical notation to recto of front endpaper.
Binding quite worn, rubbed, and bumped, with considerable loss of paper to boards; hinges cracked. Somewhat browned and dampstained, especially at upper portion of leaves; many signatures detached; tears to inner margins of several leaves not significantly affecting text; some loss to several blank inner margins; other minor defects. Reed was active as both a composer and tune book compiler in the Ithaca and Utica, New York areas in the early decades of the 19th century.
Contemporary ownership signature and several bars of manuscript musical notation to recto of front endpaper.
Binding quite worn, rubbed, and bumped, with considerable loss of paper to boards; hinges cracked. Somewhat browned and dampstained, especially at upper portion of leaves; many signatures detached; tears to inner margins of several leaves not significantly affecting text; some loss to several blank inner margins; other minor defects. Reed was active as both a composer and tune book compiler in the Ithaca and Utica, New York areas in the early decades of the 19th century.