Scotish Song. [Scotish Songs.] In Two Volumes.

  • [Ritson, Joseph]
  • London: Printed for J. Johnson 1794
  • ESTC T85052.

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Description

FIRST EDITION, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. [iv], cxix, [iii], 289, [1]; [iv], 262, [4]. Near-contemporary straight-grained black morocco, boards bordered with a double gilt rule enclosing a blind roll and a gilt frame, spines divided by raised bands gilt and lettered direct in gilt, edges gilt. A little scattered spotting, some offsetting from vignettes. A little rubbed, particularly to joints, spines somewhat sunned. Ownership inscriptions of J. Newton Harrington and binders ticket of Hering to flyleaves.

Notes

ESTC records two issues of the first edition of Ritson's collection of Scottish music - this one, with an incorrect date on the title-page of volume one (here corrected in pencil) and titled 'Scotish Song', and an issue where the title is corrected to 'Scotish Songs' and correctly dated 1794. Both of these details are correct in volume 2. It was reissued in 1869. The edition has been attractively bound by Hering - one of the family of London bookbinders who plied their trade at Newmam Street in the 1820s-40s.

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