Songs from David Herd's manuscripts
By: edited with introduction and notes by Hans Hecht
Publisher: W.J. Hay
Published: 1904
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Texts; Cape Club (Edinburgh, Scotland); Scots Songs
Other titles: Songs from Herd's manuscripts
Notes: Without music. The editor's notes include references to tunes.

"The footnotes, chiefly illustrating Burns's arrangements of the texts for Johnson's Musical Museum, may be of interest ... particularly as they claim for Burns verses which have not yet been assigned to him."--Preface, p. xi.

Includes bibliographical notes (p. 65-76) and indexes.

Also available as an electronic resource via the Internet.
Table of contents: title: Introduction includes: I. George Paton. II. Extracts from Paton's correspondence with Thomas Percy referring to David Herd's collection. III. David Herd's life and personality (David Herd and the Cape Club, Fergusson and the Cape Club, Burns in Edinburgh, Herd and Scott, etc.) IV. Bibliographical notes V. Description of David Herd's mss. (p. 76-88).