The American naval and patriotic songster
Subtitle: as sung at various places of amusement in honor of Hull, Jones, Decatur, Perry, Bainbridge, Lawrence, &c. &c. &c. ...
By: by ********
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1834
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Songsters; National songs; Sea songs; Songs and music; Poetry; History
Other titles: Naval songs.
Description: A rare compendium of eighteenth and nineteenth-century patriotic songs, chiefly of the War of 1812. The work is illustrated with a full-page frontispiece plate of the Battle of Lake Erie and 4 other full-page engravings. Among the songs included are "The Star Spangled Banner","Perry's Victory", "Rise, Columbia, Brave and Free", "The True Yank Sailor", "Hornet and Peacock". Pages 243-249 are toasts.
Notes: Without music; a few tunes indicated by title.

Preface gives the compiler's name as "Jolly Tom", an old sailor in Marine Hospital, Norfolk, Va.

On spine: Naval songs.

Includes index.