[DALRYMPLE (Alexander)], compiler:

A Collection of English Songs, with an Appendix of Original Pieces.

London, Printed by AWilliam Bennett, 1796. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 180 x 112 mms.,pp. xvi, 172, 32, recently recased in quarter calf, gilt spine, red morocco label, vellum corners. A fine copy. Dalrymple (1737-1808), a hydrographer for the East India Company, is perhaps better-known as the author of An Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean in 1769–71.

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Book number: 10242

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GLEES.

The Harmonist. A Select Collection of Ancient & Modern Glees, Catches, Canons, Epigrams Most respectfully Inscribed to the Gentlemen of the Catch & Glee Clubs of Great Britain & Ireland. By their most Devoted & Obt. Servt. The Editor.

London Printed & Sold by C. Wheatstone..., [no date], [1817]. Large 8vo, 248 x 162 mms., four parts in one volume, pp. [2], 80, [2], 80. [2], 80, 80 [81 Index, 82 blank], engraved title-page, separate title-pages to second and third parts, and engraved throughout with music and words, contemporary half red morocco, gilt spine, marbled boards (rubbed); some leaves frayed at outer margin, one leaf detached at inner margin. A total of nine volumes of glees was published over several years, and this volume comprises the first four volumes. The present of the index for the four volumes suggests that it was issued in this form.

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Book number: 7785

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HALE (Thomas):

Social Harmony. Consisting of a Collection of Songs and Catches, In two, three, four and five Parts. From the Works of the most eminent Masters. To which are added Social Choice Songs on Masonry.

[? Liverpool] [no publisher] 1763. Small folio, 235 x 160 mms., pp. [iv], 138, 62, [2], 42 numbered as pages, but engraved, except for the last two leaves, which are in manuscript and are an addition to the text, title-page designed by Hale and engraved by Morrisson, contemporary half calf, marbled boards (very rubbed), label in red morocco on front cover; spine and joints neatly restored. A very good to fine copy, with the small printed book plate of Caroli Keene on the front paste-down end-paper, The first son in the volume is a two-part song, for three voices, set by Mr. Hicks. Among the other composers are Henry Purcell, John Travers, Thomas Arne, James Green, John Blow, Thomas Brewer, etc. This is clearly a different issue from that described in ESTC T160167, as there is no printed list of subscribers nor errata, and the registration is different: [2],18,[2],31,[3],138,[2],42,62p.

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Book number: 8130

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HEMANS (Felicia):

Songs of the Affections, With Other Poems.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood, and T. Cadell..., London. 1830. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 167 x 98 mms., pp. [iv], iii [iv blank, v half-title, vi blank], 259 [260 blank], contemporary diced russia, gilt border on covers, spine ornately gilt in compartments, olive morocco label (very slightly chipped); some slight wear to covers, spine a little dried, but generally a very good copy, with the following inscription on the recto of the second blank front end-paper, "A small token of/ Regard, from/ J J Hollingsworth". Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793–1835; née Browne) had written her first book of poems by 1807, and,according to ODNB its" 'simplicity', 'richness', and linguistic attainments 'quite surprised and delighted' William Roscoe, Liverpool's literary leader ." Thereafter she published numerous works, which were all well received. The American Quarterly Review was positively dithyrambic in its praised of her works: "We have no hesitation in placing Mrs. Hemans in the highest rank of those who profess her beautiful art.... Endowed with a vivid imagination, she has a ready faculty of investing with a rich and harmonious colouring every object in nature or art, of mind or matter, upon which she exercises the spell of her fancy. She grasps the prominent point of her subject with bold hands; and under the rapid and beautiful analysis of genius, unfolds it various combinations, that rise like lights upon her march of inspiration...."

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Book number: 7723

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PITTS (J.), printer:

Vocal Repository. The Gallant Soldier; being a Collection of Choice Songs relating to the Soldier's Life

[London]: Printed and Sold by J. Pitts, Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials..., [1802 - 1819]. A broadsheet, 495 x 367 mms., folded 3 times for a small 8vo pamphlet of 16 pages; title-page detached and soiled, extremities worn and frayed. Several of the songs printed here were also reprinted in The Universal songster: or, Museum of Mirth (1834), and one of Thomas Dibdin's verses, "The Fife and Drum," ("To ev'ry fav'rite village sport...."), as well as songs from Dibdin's opera, The English Fleet.

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Book number: 7562

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RUMP SONGS. [BROME (Alexander], editor:

A Collection of Loyal Songs Written against the Rump Parliament, Between the Years 1639 and 1661. Containing A great Variety of Merry and Diverting Characters of the Chief Sectaries, who were the Principal Actors in that whole Scene of Affairs. With an Historical Introduction to the Whole. In Two Volumes.

London: Printed for J. Stone..., and sold by G. Srahan..., J. Jakcson..., 1731. 2 volumes in 1. 12mo, 162 x 95 mms., pp. [xiv], 288; [vi], 264, early 19th century quarter sheepskin, speckled boards, olive morocco label; text a bit brown, joints worn, spine rubbed, ex-library, but a reasonable copy. The poet and lawyer Brome (1620 - 1666) wrote and collected these songs and poems, and they were published under the title, Ratts Rhimed to Death; Or, The Rump-Parliament hang'd up in the Shambles in 1659. Perhaps this reprint, for which the publisher Stone was chiefly responsible, changed the title to protect Irish sensitivities: according to Robert Nares (1753–1829), the philologist and clergyman, "The fanciful idea that rats were commonly rhymed to death, in Ireland, arose probably from some metrical charm or incantation used there for that purpose" (A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions). Mark S. Jenner: "The Roasting of the Rump: Scatology and the Body Politic in Restoration England," Past & Present (2002).

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SONGS.

Le Petit Chansonnier des Desserts.

A Paris Chez Le Fuel Libraire Editeur, Rue St, Jacques No. 34 [no date] [c. 1834]] 32mo, 97 x 56 mms., unpaginated [111, 112- 114 blank], engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page, 5 other full-page engraved plates, all edges gilt, original pink boards, contained within case of similar colour, with the bookplate of F. Meunie on the front paste-down end-paper, and an earlier bookseller's ticket dating the work as printed in 1824, and with a pencil reference beneath. A fine copy. Amon the authors listed in the Table des Auteurs at the end are Armand-Gouppé, Armand Séville, Bié, Brazier, Charrin (P-J), Désaugiers, Edmond de Rochefort, Étienne Jourdan, Frédéric Bourguignon, Jacquelin (J. A.), Lablée, Lallemand-Boissolon, Mayeur (F.), Rougemont (de), and, of course, Anonymes. "Le Fuel" seems to have published several of these little collections, and copies appear to be rare. The only copy that I know of is in BNF.

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Book number: 8807

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WATTS (Isaac):

Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language for the use of Children.

Derby: Printed by and for Henry Mozley, Brook-Street, no date [c. ?1819]. 24mo, 126 x 68 mms.,, pp. [5] 6 - 71 [72 Contents], including in pagination a woodcut frontispiece, woodcut vignette for each song, contemporary boards, with most of leather spine gone, front end-paper before frontispiece removed; a so-so copy, with the following inscription on front paste-down end-paper: "exchanged with one for Jenny Stork for Catherine &/ Frances Stock Birchanger/ 24 feby. 1819/ have this" in two different hands and "F. Stokes" in pencil on top margin of title-page. Watts (1674 - 1748) published his Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language for the use of Children in 1715, and it would be difficult to estimate how many times it was reprinted. The earliest copy of this title printed in Derby that I can find was printed by John Drewry in 1792. Mozley published an edition of this work when he was in Gainsborough in 1785. Mozley was certainly publishing from an address in Brook Street in Derby as early as 1815, but the earliest date I can find for this title and the Derby imprint is 182? or 1825. Copies at the V&A and at the Bodleian of the 182? date have a colophon on p. [72], while the present copy lists Contents. So, I think it's safe to say that this is a rather rare reprinting or reissue and perhaps unique, since the inscription establishes that it was printed very early in 1819 but probably before.

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Book number: 8101

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WATTS (John), editor:

The Musical Miscellany Being a Collection of Choice Songs, Set to the Violin and Flute, by the most Eminent Masters.

London: Printed by and for John Watts..., 1729 - 1731 FIRST EDITION. 6 volumes, 8vo, 190 x 118 mms., pp. [xiv], 275 [280 blank]; [iv], 179 [180 blank]; [xiv], 200; [x], 204; [xiv], 208; [xiv], 208, engraved frontispiece for each volume, title-pages in red and black, engraved music throughout,bound in later 18th century calf, raised bands between gilt borders on spines, red leather labels; some joints worn but intact (thanks, perhaps, to some amateur repair work), but a fair to good set, from the library of the the Magalen College, Oxford, scholar, Dr. Richard Luckett (1945 - 2000) with his ticket in each volume. Eleven of the songs are attributed to Handel, and two are printed here for the first time. In the early part of his career as printer and publisher John Watts (1678 - 1763) worked with Jacob Tonson, and he was responsible for the first printings of The Beggar's Opera in 1728. He also issued music for the songs from early operas in this period, and as New Grove (1980) notes, "These editions print the airs for the songs, printed from engraved wood blocks, as an appendix, and especially valuable for giving the names of the tunes. Another important work is the six-volume The Musical Miscellany (1729 - 1731), also printed from woodblocks and considered the finest pocket songbook of the period." A large pocket, I should think. F. Kidson: British Music Publishers, Printers and Engravers (1900). C. Humphries and W. C. Smith: Music Publishing i the British Isles (1954)

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Book number: 10296

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[WILSON Charles)]:

St. Cecilia; Or, the Lady's and Gentleman's Harmonious Companion: Being a Select Collection of Scots and English Songs; many of which are originals. Together with a set of Favourite Catches and Glees: Also a Variety of the most Celebrated Toasts and Sentiments.

Edinburgh: Printed by W. Darling for C. Wilson; and sold by J. Dickson and C. Elliot. 1779. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 150 x 89 mms., pp. vii [8 - 9] 10 - 384, with additional engraved title-page and engraved frontispiece by Cowan, contemporary sheepskin, red morocco label, additional paper label, top and base of spine chipped, some other slight general wear to binding but generally a very good copy, with autograph "W. M. Adey" and a note in his hand asserting the collection to be and "immitation [sic] of Alan Ramsay's 'The tea-table Miscellany'." Wilson dedicates the work to the Earl of Haddington, probably Thomas Hamilton, seventh earl of Haddington (1720/21–1795), a member of The Poker Club and Governor of the Edinburgh Musical Society. Wilson complains in his preface that collections of this sort "abounded too much with obscene Songs, that tend to suppress Virtue, which plainly denotes that the Editors thereof have but a mean Taste.... Particular Care hat been taken in the Selection of this Edition, and nothing is inserted that can possibly give the least offence to that delicacy of taste for which the present Age is so remarkable." Spot the double entendre.

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Book number: 8861

Catalogue: Songs

Keywords: songs poetry literature Scottish Enlightenment anthology