The Chorus Wreath: A Collection of Sacred & Secular Choruses, selected from the best Oratorios, Operas, and Glee Books; Designed for the use of Musical Conventions, Societies, Singing Schools and Home Circle. Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 1864. [10589]
Cloth spine with green printed paper boards, tall 10 1/4 x 7 inches, end paper adverts, 231 {1] clean pp. tight. Boards a bit edge-worn with exposed corner tips. Good. Hardcover.
Copyright date 1864; may be a later printing. The music is in round notes.
Oliver Ditson (1811-1888), American music publisher who first apprenticed in the printing trade in 1823 with Samuel H. Parker. After Parker's death Ditson acquired his interest in the company, and from 1842 to 1856 their imprint was "Oliver Ditson." When John C. Haynes became a partner in 1857, the imprint from then until 1888 was "Oliver Ditson & Co." After Ditson's death in 1888 the company reorganized as Oliver Ditson Company. At the time of Oliver Ditson's death the firm was the largest of its kind in the United States, with branches in New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and Chicago, boasting a catalogue of more than 100,000 titles.
