OLD UNCLE NED

Cloth binding. Spine side half blue; vertical gold stripe down the center and foredge side brown. On blue half, black design and black print in 3 gold title boxes. On brown side, pictorial of "Uncle Ned" with black print. Designs and print are embossed. Tapered edges. Endpapers are yellow wallpaper type design. Corner tips and spine ends are rubworn. .All 3 edges are gilt. 2 color plates are paste-ins. B&W illustrations on every other page. Text is words to"Old Uncle Ned". Last two pages are score and libretto of the song. First song page torn across bottom. Text block is sewn but not particularly tight. Some foxing. Unpaginated. "Old Uncle Ned was published in 1848, the only one of his songs published by Millets Music Saloon. It appears to be one of his Minsteral Show songs.