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Description and Notes
written and composed by Stephen C. Foster.
For voice and piano.
Reprint. Originally published: [New York] : Firth, Pond & Co., 1859.
Oliver Ditson & Co. acquired the Firth catalog in 1867 and remained at this address until 1876. Cf. Early American sheet music / Dichter and Shapiro.
Verses 2-3 printed without accompaniment on p. [5]
Advertisement: Choice catalogue of very popular music, catalogue number four on p. [6]
Ornamental border on t.p.
Price mark 3 1/2 in eight-pointed star.
First line of text: The pride of the village, and the fairest in the dell.
First line of chorus: Fairy-Belle, gentle Fairy-Belle.
Foster Hall Collection cutter no.: 135.4.
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864. Songs. Selections (Foster's melodies) ; no. 41.