Author: Anonymous
Title: Johnson&Apos;S Lottery Song-Book, or the Vocal Adventurer, for the Year 1777
Description: London, E. Johnson and Co. 1777. First edition. Leather. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this impressive volume collecting hundreds of ballads, poems and songs that were popular in the late eighteenth century. A very scarce first edition.Containing 'hundred of the newest and most favourite love, hunting, bacchanalian, and humorous songs that are now in vogue, in the most polite companies&apos.An alphabetically arranged index of first lines to the start of the work identifies the pieces in the collection.ESTC T121291Undated; dated 1777 via the British Library.With a nineteenth century former owner's inscription to the front free endpaper, with ink inscription to tail of leaf A2. While the title claims there are four hundred poems in this work, in actual fact only 316 are listed. Rebacked, in a full calf binding, retaining the original boards and endpapers. Hinges reinforced. Significant rubbing to board perimeters. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Significant closed tear and small loss to title page at gutter. Pages lightly age toned due to paper type, with only the odd spot. Ink inscription to tail of leaf A2. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
Keywords: Johnson's lottery song-book songs poems ballads songs None
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Title: Johnson&Apos;S Lottery Song-Book, or the Vocal Adventurer, for the Year 1777
Description: London, E. Johnson and Co. 1777. First edition. Leather. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this impressive volume collecting hundreds of ballads, poems and songs that were popular in the late eighteenth century. A very scarce first edition.Containing 'hundred of the newest and most favourite love, hunting, bacchanalian, and humorous songs that are now in vogue, in the most polite companies&apos.An alphabetically arranged index of first lines to the start of the work identifies the pieces in the collection.ESTC T121291Undated; dated 1777 via the British Library.With a nineteenth century former owner's inscription to the front free endpaper, with ink inscription to tail of leaf A2. While the title claims there are four hundred poems in this work, in actual fact only 316 are listed. Rebacked, in a full calf binding, retaining the original boards and endpapers. Hinges reinforced. Significant rubbing to board perimeters. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Significant closed tear and small loss to title page at gutter. Pages lightly age toned due to paper type, with only the odd spot. Ink inscription to tail of leaf A2. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
Keywords: Johnson's lottery song-book songs poems ballads songs None
Price: GBP 550.00 = appr. US$ 785.39 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 934F37
- Book number: 934F37
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