The Scots musical museum : consisting of upwards of six hundred songs, with proper basses for the pianoforte /
Burns, Robert,1759-1796.
Johnson, James,approximately 1750-1811.
Stenhouse, William,1773?-1827.
Clarke, Stephen,-1797.
Edinburgh ; London : W. Blackwood and sons,
1853.
Vol. 1-3 paged continuously.
The facsimile is a letter from Burns to Johnson.
Music engraved.
Burns contributed 184 songs, wrote most of the prefaces to the different volumes, and may be said to have edited the 1st edition. The arrangements of the airs were prepared chiefly by Stephen Clarke. Cf. Dict. nat. biog., v. 30, p. 16.
Preface, v. 1, signed: David Laing. Notes added to Stenhouse's "Illustrations" by C. K. Sharpe.
Contains, as added title-pages, the title-pages of 1st edition (2d issue).
Songs
Ballads
Folk songs