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1st edition hardcover with bonus 28pp booklet tipped in on the rear end paper. Rebinding project working copy: Back strip is missing, boards detached, contents are in vg solid shape. 192pp are age toned and brittle at edges with only one 1/4" x 1" chip at margin of last page (no loss of text). Marbled end papers present, matching burgundy/black marbled paste downs. Black leather on spine edges of boards and on worn tips. Leather covered board tips are rubbed round with boards exposed. First page is a dedication by the publisher (as published, not hand-written) dedicating this work to John Wilson, Esquire of the Theaters Royal Drury Lane and English Opera House, Professor of Music &c, &c. "Sir, Permit me to dedicate to you this little work, under the conviction that beautiful as our National Melodies are, they gain an additional luster by an association with the name of one so much their friend and patron. The advantage which the Music of Scotland has derived from your taste and ability, is so universally acknowledged, that anything I might say on the subject would be superfluous. May you be long spared to sustain, with that distinguished talent which is so much the admiration of the world, the excellence of the Melodies of your native land, and to claim that gratitude your countrymen so justly owe to your merits. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient Servant, Wm. Mitchison. Music Saloon, Buchanan-Street, Glasgow 1841." Contains an exhaustive list of 116 songs and music. A mention at the bottom of the contents page for the following: An Elegant Edition of this Work may be had in Royal Octavo, with Plates, bound in cloth, price 10s. 6d. Details of second stapled booklet glued near the spine edge onto the rear end paper: Kennedy's Handbook of Scottish Song with the Melodies; As Sung by Him with Great Success For Several Hundred Nights at the Hanover Square Rooms and Music Hall, Store Street, London and Throughout the Principal Towns of England and Scotland. Published by Henderson, Rait, and Fenton, London 1866. This 28pp booklet contains 40 songs complete with music including word definitions at bottom margin of some pages by publisher. This booklet is VG+ condition, age toned at edges and three faint pencil marks alongside three of the titles in the contents list. A background word about co-author Patrick Buchan, taken from: Musical Scotland, Past and Present by David Baptie, Published in Paisley, Scotland by J. and R. Parlane in 1894: "Peter Buchan, born Peterhead, 1790; died London 19th September 1854. Poet, editor, collector and inventor. Having invented an ingenious revolving press for copperplate printing, he in 1816 opened a printing office in Peterhead, and in 1819 compiled the "Annals of Peterhead, " 12mo, which he printed at a press of his own contrivance. Shortly after he followed this up with "An Historical Account of the Ancient and Noble Family of Keith, Earls-Marischal of Scotland." A good many other works were published by him, of which we shall here only notice "Poems and Songs" (1814) and "Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland, hitherto unpublished, with Explanatory Notes" (2 Vols, Edin., 1828), and "The Garland of Scotia" (1841), along with John Turnbull (q.v.). In the early part of 1854 he went to London to endeavour to arrange for the publication of another volume of "Ancient Scottish Ballads," but fell sick and died there. Seller Inventory # 33360
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