8vo. [2], 219pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece and a further eight plates. Original publisher's brick red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed and marked, discoloured, spine sunned. Internally clean and crisp.

[Together with:] A contemporary Woodburytype photograph depicting 10 members of the Jubilee Singers, with a letterpress caption identifying each. Pen and ink inscription of J. Price to verso.

A book of the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, Tennessee, an African-American a capella ensemble who performed to raise money in aid of the university, an institution formed after the Civil War to provide higher education to freed slaves. Included is a contemporary photograph of the group, who would introduce their audiences to slave songs and spirituals. Touring both America and Britain, the group reunited in 1878 after brief disbandment and are still performing today.