A Collection of English Songs, With an Appendix of Original Pieces
by [DALRYMPLE (Alexander)], editor:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Printed by William Bennett, 1796. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 16, 172, 33 [34 blank], 19th century half calf, marbled boards (slightly rubbed( gilt spine (rubbed), morocco label; front joint cracked (but firm), with the contemporary autograph "C. B. Morgan" and an amorial bookplate on the front paste-down end-paper, bookplate of Reginald L. Hine and his autograph on recto of front free end-paper. 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 176971.
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- Bookseller
- John Price Antiquarian Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6245
- Title
- A Collection of English Songs, With an Appendix of Original Pieces
- Author
- [DALRYMPLE (Alexander)], editor:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Printed by William Bennett, 1796
- Keywords
- song music literature Scottish Enlightenment
- Bookseller catalogs
- song;
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- Morocco
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