Jerome & Schwartz's Comic Song Folio

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A book of sheet music with songs by William Jerome and Jean Schwartz. The "Comic Song Folio" was published by Shapiro, Bernstein, & Company. The front cover is printed in orange, dark green, and black with a floral vine behind two black-and-white portraits, the portrait on the left of Jerome and the portrait on the right of Schwartz. There are fifty-four (54) interior pages printed and numbered on both sides. The back cover has advertisements for other publications available from Shapiro, Bernstein, & Company printed in dark green ink. The pages are bound along the left side with string and there is black cloth binding adhered around them and underneath the front cover. The book contains fifteen (15) songs, including the minstrel songs "The Man Who Plays the Tambourine," "There'll Never be a Coon in the Presidential Chair," "Dusky Dudes Song," and "Looping the Loop." The latter two songs reference the cake walk.

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