Original publisher's blue cloth binding with impressed decorations on front cover and spine and gilt lettering and decorations on front cover and spine. All edges gilt. No date, circa 1865. 8" x 10 1/4." 286 pages, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Foxing on some pages. Faint stains on back cover. A beautiful book with 144 songs for voice and piano. From the introduction: "The Publisher, in issuing the 'National Melodist,' feels confident that he is supplying to the Musical Public what has been felt to be a desideratum--namely, a collection of the best English, Irish, Scotch, and American Songs, with Symphonies and Accompaniments for the Pianoforte."