Provenance
The book was gifted by Albert Metcalf as part of the Ritter library to Tufts in 1901 to help bolster the separated library of the new Music department. Metcalf was one of the main proponents of the founding of the Tufts Music Department.
The Frédéric Louis Ritter Collection is the largest named special collection at Tufts, providing a sweeping overview of music history, containing works from the 16th to the 19th centuries on all areas of musical interest - history, biography, theory, composition, and performance. It contains many rare titles.
Ritter collected contemporary and important historical scores, books, and periodicals throughout his career as a professional musician, composer, author, and Professor and Director of the School of Music at Vassar College. Shortly after Ritter's death in 1891, Tufts trustee Albert Metcalf acquired Ritter’s library, and continued to add to the collection, increasing its size from around 1800 titles to approximately 2500. In 1901 he donated the collection to Tufts to support development of the new Department of Music.
This stamp shows that the book was bought in Cincinnatii, probably in the late nineteenth century, since it was gifted by Metcalf in 1901. This book is the second edition, which contains a supplementary section on use of music in Native American drum circles, with a firsthand account from one of Eastcott's readers. This could explain why the book made the journey across the ocean to the American market.