Author: SIME (D.), editor:
Title: The Edinburgh Musical Miscellany: A Collection of the most approved Scotch, English, and Irish Songs, Set to Music.
Description: Edinburgh: Printed for W. Gordon, T. Brown, N. R. Cheyne, & Silvester Doig, Edinburgh; W. Coke, Leith; J. Gillies, Glasgow; & G. Milln & W. Brown, Dundee, 1792. FIRST EDITION. 12mo (in 6s), 175 x 105 mms., pp. [ii], x [xi - xii blank], 359 [360 adverts], engraved frontispiece and engraved vignette on title-page, engraved music throughout text, stout library buckram; ex-library with library stamp in blind on title-page, autograph "J. Johnston" on top margin of title-page. The first song in this volume is "To Anacreon in Heaven," to which the American national anthem owes some musical debt. "Rule, Britannia" appears somewhat later. An American theme returns with "The Celebrated Death-Song of the Cherokee Indian, An Original Indian Air." A second volume was published in 1793.

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