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Published by Gill & Son, Dublin, Ireland, 1963
ISBN 10: 0717100847ISBN 13: 9780717100842
Seller: B-Line Books, Amherst, NS, Canada
Book
Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint Edition. Tight clean unmarked book with slight streaks of tape residue to inside covers and short closed tear to top of spine. 261 pp; 6.5 x 8".
Published by Legare Street Press 2021-09-09, 2021
ISBN 10: 101418147XISBN 13: 9781014181473
Seller: Chiron Media, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: New.
Published by James Duffy, Dublin, 1859
Seller: Montreal Books, Westmount, QC, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Fair (Book Condition). New Edition. Covers detached but present. Pages are intact and together. Occasional foxing on pages, but good conditon (pages). Gilt on edges. Gilt designs along spine. Black and gilt lettering and decorations on front cover. [Our rating system: 1.Fine; 2. Near fine; 3. Very good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]. Book.
Published by James Duffy, Dublin, 1859
Seller: RPBooks, Champlain, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair (Book Condition). New Edition. Covers detached but present. Pages are intact and together. Occasional foxing on pages, but good conditon (pages). Gilt on edges. Gilt designs along spine. Black and gilt lettering and decorations on front cover. [Our rating system: 1.Fine; 2. Near fine; 3. Very good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]. Book.
Published by J. Powers/W. Powers, London Dublin
Seller: Spafford Books (ABAC / ILAB), Regina, SK, Canada
[circa 1811]. (hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. Various. Folio. Limp cloth, brown with gilt title stamped to the front. Irish music and scores. Pages are lightly age toned at edges, and light water stains intermittently throughout. Faintly starting at the front and rear hinges, otherwise clean and legible, and remarkably well preserved, given the age.
Published by James Duffy, Dublin, 1859
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Revised Edition. Quarto, 333pp., illustrated with engraved title page and frontispiece. A very good copy in contemporary 3/4 black morocco over black rough-grained cloth. Leather dried out and quite rubbed, otherwise a crisp, sound copy. Preface dated 1859. Contemporary binder's ticket (John C. Moore (fittingly!) of Rochester, NY) on the front paste-down. Solid copy.
Published by James Duffy, Dublin, 1859
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: V.g. New Edition. 333pp, frontis portrait of Moore and dec. title-page. Rebound [ not recent] in dark green buckram with the original title pasted to the front board and spine. Songs and tunes in notation with the words. Title-page and frontis. damp stained to the fore-edge margins. Size: 4to.
Published by 1st edn. Power, London & Dublin., 1811
Seller: Black Cat Bookshop P.B.F.A, Leicester, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Symphonies & accompaniments by Stevenson & characteristic words by Moore. Engraved frontis. Large format music scores. Original decorated card cover. Grubby & rather worn. Some pages loose. Spine taped. Lacks rear cover.
Published by 1st edn. Powers, London & Dublin., 1815
Seller: Black Cat Bookshop P.B.F.A, Leicester, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Symphonies & accompaniments by Stevenson & characteristic words by Moore. Engraved frontis. Large format music scores. Original decorated card cover. Grubby & rather worn. Some pages loose. Spine taped. Small piece cut from base of engraved title pages (losing part of the word 'Dublin').
Published by T. Jekyll, Philadelphia, 1821
Seller: Malcolm Books, Thetford, United Kingdom
Sheet Music First Edition
1st U.S. Edition. 255 + x pages, orig leather binding well rubbed,front detached, .Contents gen. good & tight just the odd mark, . NO owner inscriptions Size: 10 x 16cm Approx. Sheet Music.
Published by James Duffy, Dublin, 1859
Seller: Browsers Books, Hamilton, NZ, New Zealand
Book
Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. New Edition. James Duffy Dublin, 1859 New Edition 333pp ills (frontis and title page) VG+ (full leather w gilt edges and gilt harp stamp to top board, raised bands on spine and gitl stamped compartments to spine, chipping to head and foot of spine, sl rubbed and soiled, mod wear to estrems, gilt edges, prelims sl foxed and owners inscr in prelims) v tidy copy in attractive full leather binding.
Published by William Power, Dublin
Seller: Dublin Bookbrowsers, Dublin, NONE, Ireland
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Two vols.in one. Pp. (1) (5), 112; (2) (4), 102. Title page vol. 1. includes engraving by T. Stothard R.A. at bottom of page depicting a woman reclining against a tree with her head turned looking at a harp. The engraving on vol. 2. is smaller and depicts a tree stump with a harp in front of & a ruin of a castle in the distance. Undated. Half black mo. & marbled boards with name Letitia Maria Heathcote in gilt on black mo.gilt bordered label as front cover centrepiece. Circa mid 19th century. Lower spine partially split at edges.Occasional scuffing of covers. Else good. Title page of vol. 1. has previous owner's name in pen in a neat hand at top corner: "Miss Darley 26 Fitzwilliam Street, Merrion Square." Henry Shaw's Dublin Directory 1850 confirms a Frederick Darley as living at this address. These two vols. may well have been issued in Moore's life time i.e. before 1833. Letitia Maria (Daly) married Sir William Perceval Heathcote, 6th Baronet and was mother of Rev. Sir William Arthur Heathcote, 7th Baronet; Lt.-Col. Sir Gilbert Redvers Heathcote, 8th Baronet; Kathleen Ada Heathcote and Isabel Frances Heathcote. Letitia died in 1910.
Published by Cramer, Addison & Beale, London, 1830
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Unknown edition. Folio. 5pp. Wrappers. Owner name on the front cover, nearly separated at the spine, notched in the spine from once being bound within an album, early tape repair to the verso of the front wrapper and along the spine on the rear wrapper, edgewear, and creasing to the top of the pages, a complete but good only copy. For voice and piano. Plate number 918. *OCLC* locates only one holding of this edition and dates it at 1830.
Published by C. & E. W. Jackson, Boston, 1821
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Unknown edition. Folio. Single bifolium making four pages. Notches in the spine from once being bound within a volume, offsetting, and some soiling, still a very good copy. For voice and piano. *OCLC* locates three holdings.
Published by E. Riley, New York, 1860
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Folio. Single bifolium making four pages. Separated at the fold, spine notched from once being bound within an album, toning, and light edgewear, a complete but good only copy. For voice and piano. Plate number 1122. *OCLC* locates three holdings.
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). Early editions of the first four numbers of Thomas Moore and John Stevenson's impressive collection of traditional Irish lyrics, melodies and music. With words from Irish poet Thomas Moore, and symphonies and accompaniments from Irish composer Sir John Stevenson, this is a smart example of the duo's collection of traditional Irish poems, tunes and melodies.Following a request from the publishers James and William Power, over twenty-six years from 1808 t0 1834, Stevenson and Moore published this work in ten volumes, together with a supplement, with the primary source being Edward Bunting's 'A General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music'.Present here are early editions of the first four numbers.Collated, with an engraved frontispiece to the first number, an engraved title page to each number, and five further engraved plates.Undated; dated 1810 to 1813 via Jisc.Former owner's inscription to front pastedown and front free endpaper.The 'Melodies' were an immediate success, with Byron praising Moore for the work and claiming he new each melody 'by rote and by heart'. In a half calf binding, with marbled paper covered boards. Significant rubbing to joints and board perimeters. Tail of front joint starting, with board holding firm. Inscription to front pastedown and front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages age toned due to paper type throughout, with scattered light spotting. Closed tears to tails of a small number of pages. Very Good. book.
Published by Printed and Sold at Carrs Music Store Baltimore, Baltimore, 1810
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
[2] unpaginated leaves. 4to. First edition; sheet music. First edition; sheet music. [2] unpaginated leaves. 4to. OCLC locates a single holding [Johns Hopkins]. Records indiacte this was possibly from 1808, from Irish Melodies vol. 1. Wrappers with heavy early soiling, rust marks from paper clip at lower front corner, leaves separated along spine, and owner's early eight-line ink inscription on blank verso of one leaf (dated 1824). A good scarce copy.
Published by Ward, Lock and Co., London, 1890
Seller: Monroe Bridge Books, MABA Member, Houlton, ME, U.S.A.
Association Member: MABA
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fair to Good. Circa 1890. xviii, 384pp, bound in original green cloth with bevelled edges, includes written songs with musical notation. Covers show edge/corner wear/tear, hinges loose, ownership on the front free endpaper, dating back to 1891 in Cork, Ireland, some loss to one page.
Published by London : Published by ADDISON & HODSON. 210, REGENT STREET. opposite Conduit Street. and 47, King Street, 1845
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Finely bound in modern fine-ribbed, gilt-blocked cloth with the original front wrapper laid back. An exceptional example; of presentation quality. Physical description; 1 score ([3ff.], pp. 2-63) ; 38 cm. Lyrics written by Thomas Moore, Price: 15 Shill.gs. Imprint on board cover : "PUBLISHED BY CRAMER, ADDISON AND BEALE, 201, REGENT STREET, AND 67, CONDUIT STREET". Engraver: "Silvester del. et Sculp. 27, Strand, London".Includes dedication, engraver "Silvester sc.27, Strand". "To the Nobility and Gentry of Ireland' the following work is respectfully inscribed by the late Publisher, James Power". Content includes arrangements of: "Oh! the Days are gone", "I saw thy Form in youthful Prime", "Avenging and bright", and "This Life is all chequered". There are also harmonised versions of certain of the airs. Subjects; Songs, Irish.Songs with piano. 1 Kg.
Published by London : Published by ADDISON & HODSON. 210, REGENT STREET. opposite Conduit Street. and 47, King Street, 1845
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Finely bound in modern fine-ribbed, gilt-blocked cloth with the original front wrapper laid back. An exceptional example; of presentation quality. Physical description; 1 score ([3ff.], pp. 2-63) ; 38 cm. Lyrics written by Thomas Moore, Price: 15 Shill.gs. Imprint on board cover : "PUBLISHED BY CRAMER, ADDISON AND BEALE, 201, REGENT STREET, AND 67, CONDUIT STREET". Engraver: "Silvester del. et Sculp. 27, Strand, London".Includes dedication, engraver "Silvester sc.27, Strand". "To the Nobility and Gentry of Ireland' the following work is respectfully inscribed by the late Publisher, James Power". Content includes arrangements of: "Oh! the Days are gone", "I saw thy Form in youthful Prime", "Avenging and bright", and "This Life is all chequered". There are also harmonised versions of certain of the airs. Subjects; Songs, Irish.Songs with piano. 1 Kg.
Seller: L'Ancienne Librairie, Paris, France
Book
London, Gouldinf & D'Almaine, s.d. / Dublin, Marcus Moses, s.d. / London, C. Lonsdale, s.d. / London, J. Duff & Co, s.d. / London, Alexander Lee & Lee, s.d. / London, Cramer, Addison & Beale, s.d. / s.d. / London, J. Balls & Son, s.d. / Edinburgh, Alexander Robertson, s.d. / London, J. Dean, s.d. / London, S. Chappell, s.d. / London, Royal Harmonic Institution, s.d. / London, J. Alfred Novello, s.d. / London & Edinburgh, Cramer, Addison & Beale, Alexander Robertson, s.d. / London, Cramer, Addison & Beale, s.d. / London, Lensdale & Mills, s.d. / London, R. Mills, Paris, Pacini, s.d. / etc., etc. 2 volumes in-4, 107 ff. et 133 ff. numérotés (encre et plume), reliure plein maroquin bordeaux de l'époque, dos et plats ornés (dos un peu frottés). Ex-dono à Mademoiselle Bréald (?). A collection of 64 musical scores of the XIXth century, finely bound in 2 volumes. / Recueil de 64 partitions musicales du XIXe siècle, bien reliées en deux volumes. * Voir photographies / See pictures. Livres.
Published by London & Dublin, Printed and Sold at J. Power's Music & Instrument Warehouse & at W. Power's Music Warehouse, [1813 & 1815]., 1815
Seller: West Coast Rare Books, Westport, MAYO, Ireland
First Edition
[First Editions]. 5th & 6th Number bound into one Volume. 34.5 x 24.5 cm. (2) [blank], tissue guarded engraved title page, (4) [dedication & index], 52 pages, engraved music scores / title page, advertisement, pages numbered 52 to 113. Full page engraving between pages 77 and 78. New half cloth over decorated paper covered boards. Contemporary red morroco label ['Mrs. T. Moore'] from original binding on front board. Good condition only. New solid binding. Internally seriously age darkened and damp stained. See images for a clear idea of the condition. Gift inscription on first blank page (see comments below). Partially trimmed inscription on top of second title page (6th Number), possibly by the author? Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852) was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist celebrated for his Irish Melodies. His setting of English-language verse to old Irish tunes marked the transition in popular Irish culture from Irish to English. Politically, Moore was recognised in England as a press, or "squib", writer for the aristocratic Whigs; in Ireland he was accounted a Catholic patriot. The Irish Melodies. In the early years of his career, Moore's work was largely generic, and had he died at this point he would likely not have been considered an Irish poet. From 1806 to 1807, Moore dramatically changed his style of writing and focus. Following a request by the publishers James and William Power, he wrote lyrics to a series of Irish tunes in the manner of Haydn's settings of British folksongs, with Sir John Andrew Stevenson as arranger of the music. The principal source for the tunes was Edward Bunting's A General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music (1797) to which Moore had been introduced at Trinity by Edward Hudson. The Melodies was published in ten volumes, together with a supplement, over 26 years between 1808 and 1834. The musical arrangements of the last volumes, following Stevenson's death in 1833, were by Henry Bishop. The Melodies were an immediate success, "The Last Rose of Summer", "The Minstrel Boy", "Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms" and "Oft in the Stilly Night" becoming immensely popular. There were parodies in England, but translations into German, Italian, Hungarian, Czech, and French, and settings by Hector Berlioz guaranteed a large European audience. In the United States, "The Last Rose of Summer" alone sold more than a million copies. Gift inscription: 'To Ed O'Malley Keyes M.F.H. from Guy Paget in memory of a great week with the Blazers 17/12/26. This book was given to Geraldin McCausland, who married Thomas Tertius Paget, by her friend Thomas Moore The Author' Provenance: Thomas Tertius Paget (1807 - 1892) was an English banker and Liberal Party politician. Paget was the eldest son of the banker and Whig politician Thomas Paget (1778-1862) and his wife Anne Pares. He was a partner in Leicester Bank and became a J. P. and a Deputy Lieutenant for Leicestershire and High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1869. Paget was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) in 1867. However, he was defeated at the 1868 general election, and was unsuccessful both at a further by-election in 1870 and at the 1874 general election. He finally regained the seat, after a twelve-year absence from the House of Commons, at the 1880 general election. He retired from Parliament at the 1886 general election. Paget died at the age of 84, having married Katharine Geraldine MacCausland, daughter of Marcus MacCausland of Dreenagh, County Londonderry, in 1850. Colonel O'Malley-Keyes was Master of the Galway Blazers (an Irish Foxhunting Club) from 1926 to 1928. Sprache: english.
10. London, J. Power's Strand; Dublin, W. Power's, s.d. (1808), in-4°, 32 x 24 cm, Bound with (bound at the beginning) Parry John; A selection of Welsh Melodies, with appr. English Words, adapted for the voice, with symphonies and accompaniments for the Piano Forte or Harp by John Parry, London, Bland & Wellers, s.d. (ca. 1820) engraved title (King Cadwalader at an Eisteddvod) + (6)(with list of subscribers) + 64 pp + 6 pp engraved music. Bound with; .First number. (1)nn pp (printed introduction) + engr. title + engr. dedication (1)(index) + 102 pp (mostly eng. music, some textleaves , one title). Bound with; Idem, idem, A series of Sacred Songs, Duetts and Trios., engraved title + (4) + 77 pp engr. music. Bound with; Idem, idem, A selection of Popular National Airs., (2) + engraved title with large engraving by T. Stothard + (4) + 113 pp engr. music. Contemporary half leather, smooth back with simple gilt lines decorations, marbled boards with leather title label on frontcover (''Melodies''). Binding with some light wear, some slight foxing in the Parry part, but a fine copy.
Published by London, 1813
Seller: Katz Fine Manuscripts Inc., Cochrane, AB, Canada
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Condition: Good+. On offer is an exceedingly rare manuscript being a collection of early American secular music, a song from James Joyce, and one of the earliest collections of non-Western Music. A fine and handsome collection. [1813 - 1818] with the bookplate of the first Governor of Kansas. The Book: A Selection of Popular National Airs : with Symphonies and Accompaniments by Sir John Stevenson ; the words by Thomas Moore. London : J. Power, 1818. 58 engraved plates, preceded by a manuscript copy of John Braham's The Beautiful Maid as sung by Mr. Braham (which finds a place in the Thomas Edison Collection of American Sheet Music as an early example of American secular music), bound with pages 3-8 Vocal Music, bound with Charles Edward Horns' Indian Melodies. London, J.Power, [1813]. Likely the first printed introduction of Indian Music ("Native Hindostanee tunes") to England. 53 engraved plates bound with 'A Catalogue of Vocal Music' by Thomas Moore. London, 1815. 3 pages. FOLIO, the whole bound in 19th century red morocco and gilt and marbled boards, with loss to spine, some pages slightly loose or loose and occasional browning, but otherwise well preserved and a handsome book with fine engraved plates. Ex-Libris Bookplate of Charles Robinson, 1818 - 94, American politician and first governor of the state of Kansas (1861 - 63). Perhaps the most interesting work in this assemblage is Horn's Indian Melodies. An extremely rare work, it preserves native tunes such as "Mutru be Khoosh nuwa nego" and "Munni bibbi nocharee." It is a truly fascinating and certainly one of the earliest printed collections of non-Western music for the English market. (Research did locate a 1794 manuscript in the University of Glasgow from Calcutta with similar melodies) "Thomas Moore remains one of Ireland's most beloved poets, but he was also a talented composer and accomplished musician." The work here contains the famous Scottish Air "Oft in the Stilly Night" which is of interest to fans of James Joyce as it makes its appearance when it is sung sung by Stephen's "poverty-stricken family as they sit in the dark awaiting their meager supper" in his Portrait. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Manuscript.
Published by G.E. Blake's Musical Library and Circulating Library C [1810], Philadelphia, 1810
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First American Edition. Folio [35cm x 26cm].10 parts bound into one volume; the 9 parts of the Irish Melodies,comprising 6 "volumes", with title pages, and one volume of Moore's Sacred Songs bound in at the rear. A rather nice, heavily gilded old sheep half binding over marbled boards, rubbed with some fraying and incidental cosmetic splitting to the spine head, corners scuffed and rounded. A binding that has done well to travel 200 years intact, but which hasn't simply strolled all the way here. The rather low grade pastedowns and flyleaves have foxed, but the text block is largely clear of anything other than occasional, mostly marginal foxing. Internally clean, with some occasional creasing and the odd page of slightly faded printing, probably more testament to Blake's eagerness to get the individual parts out than any subsequent wear, the impression on the two full page plates is a little hit and miss too, most notably the "After The Battle" engraving by Pocock and Kearny. Remnants of the original blue paper wraps linger in the gutters of some volumes. A strong and solid collection. George Blake, a British emigree to Philadelphia, began his music publishing venture in 1802, from the address where he had previously taught flute on South 3rd St. His obtaining the rights to publish the fabulously successful Moore and Stevenson Irish Melodies, already a bestseller on the streets of London and Dublin, was a tremendous coup that very much made his name in the early years of his extensive career. Between 1808 and 1825 he continued to distribute the Melodies in various forms and formats, and during this period he also branched out into the works of Handel (he was the first US publisher of "The Messiah" in 1830), a number of pro-American/Anti-British printings of camp songs and marching songs were also produced, and by the 1820's Blake was claiming to offer the largest selection of printed music in the US. The rapidity and vigour of his output means that the majority of his work is undated, and can only be pinned into a time period by factors like textual changes and the address at which he was based. In 1813 Blake expanded out of his 3rd St. address, and into a larger property at 13 South 5th Street. These printings of Irish Melodies, lavishly decorated and densely printed, all bear the 3rd St. address on their engraved title pages, indicating that they were printed between 1808 and 1813, placing them in the first run of publication; the Sacred Songs volume bound in at the rear bears the 5th St. address, indicating it was printed sometime after (although it is noticeable that the price of $4 per issue remains consistent). The first four issues are numbered by hand to the title pages, which looks to have been a Blake in-house convention to allow for printing of general rather than specific title pages for each issue. Each issue contains an index of songs and a description of where they fit into the canon. There is a definite case to be made that the popularity and accessibility of "Irish Melodies" contributed strongly to a cohesive sense of Irish cultural identity within the US. Any issues of the Phildelphia printings of Irish Melodies are thin on the ground, a complete collection even more so.