A general collection of the ancient Irish music
Subtitle: containing a variety of admired airs never before published, and also the compositions of Conolan and Carolan
By: collected from the harpers &c. in the different provinces of Ireland : and adapted for the piano-forte, with a prefatory introduction by Edward Bunting
Contributors: Carolan, Turlough, 1670-1738, composer; Connellan, William, composer; Connellan, Thomas, composer; Preston, John, d. 1798, printer; Straight, Thomas, engraver; Neele, Samuel John, 1758-1824, engraver; Hime, Morris, bookseller; Hackett, Edmond Byrne, b. 1879, former owner
Publisher: Printed & sold by Preston & Son, at their wholesale warehouses 97 Strand
Published: 1796
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Folk music; Early works to 1800; Irish Songs; Arranged Piano music; Irish Folk songs
Other titles: Ancient Irish music.
Notes: "Vol. 1 ... price 10s 6d": title page.

Engraved title page signed: Neele sc.

Completed in 1796. Cf. Pollard.

Includes 66 songs, music only.

The songs were collected at a meeting of itinerant Irish harpers in Belfast, 12 July 1792--Preface.

Engraved music signed at bottom of p. 35: Tho[ma]s Straight No. 7 Lambeth Walk Surrey.

"Sold at Hime's Musical Circulating Library ...": bookseller's label laid down on p. 1, third count.

FU copy bears the bookplate of E. Byrne Hackett.

Pollard, W.  Dublin book trade, p. 288.

Song titles in Gaelic & English.