A select collection of original Scottish airs for the voice, : with introductory & concluding symphonies & accompaniments for the piano forte, violin & violoncello /
Thomson,Mr.(George),1757-1851.
Pleyel, Ignaz,1757-1831.Songs.Selections.
Kozeluch, Leopold,1747-1818.Songs.Selections.
Haydn, Joseph,1732-1809.Songs,violin, continuo acc.Selections.
Burns, Robert,1759-1796.
Preston, Thomas,fl. 1789-1834,publisher.
Moir, John,printer,printer.
London: : Printed & sold by T. Preston, ... Sold also by G. Thomson, the editor & proprietor, Edinburgh.,
[1804-1805]
Prefaces and colophons to v. 1-3 dated 1803, but published in 1804; v. 4 has no preface but colophon is dated 1805.
McCue SIb, SIIb, SIIIb, SIVa; Hopkinson/Oldman 1804/1805 eds.
Vols. 1 and 2 contain music arr. Kozeluch and Pleyel, selected from B.708-739 and B.707-737; vols. 3 and 4 are devoted entirely to Haydn.
Vols. 1 and 2 are a reissue of sets 1-4, originally published 1793-1799, first issued as a 2 v. set in 1801, together with a new v. 3, here re-issued with new prefatory material and letterpress; v. 4 is new to this edition.
Sequences of engraved music interleaved with letterpress song texts with duplicate numbering; pagination continuous between vols. (200 p.).
Score for voice and piano.
Vol. 4 includes a glossary of the Scottish words.
Colophons have the imprint of J. Moir.
Vol. 1 has frontispiece ''The birks of Invermay" (1799); v. 2, ''John Anderson my Jo" (1799); v. 3, "The soldier's return" (1801); v. 4, Robert Burns (1805).
Hopkinson, C. and Oldman, C.B.  Thomson's collections of national song (Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions, v. 2, pt. 1 (1940)),
McCue, K. C.  George Thomson (1757-1851) : his collections of national airs in their Scottish cultural context (Oxford University, D.Phil. thesis, 1993),
Songs, Scots.
Songs, English
Folk songs, Scots.
Songs with piano.
Songs with instrumental ensemble.
Vocal duets with piano.
Vocal duets with instrumental ensemble.
England London.
Scotland Edinburgh.