Minstrelsy
Subtitle: ancient and modern, with an historical introduction and notes. By William Motherwell
Publisher: John Wylie
Published: 1827
Place of publication: Glasgow
Language: eng
Number of pages: 570
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">4to. ff. [4], pp. cv, 390, f. [1] (coat of arms), pp. xiv, ff. [9] (sheets of music), pp. xv-xxiv, [1]. Signatures: [pi]4 a6 b-n4 o1 A-C4 D5 E-Z4 2A-2Z4 3A-3C4 [o]3 p-q4 r2. Cloth-backed boards.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First edition, one of twelve (?) copies printed on large paper (see handwritten note on page opposite to title page). Book label “This book is Bishop Cilmour’s and after his death belongs to Seminary Library, Cleveland” on front pastedown. Inscribed by the publisher to John Strang; inscription partly covered by pasted-in book review in Saturday Review (February 6 1875). This magnum opus by the distinguished collector and editor William Motherwell (1797-1835) contains a forgery, ‘The Cavalier’s Song’, attributed by J. A. Farrer (Literary forgeries. London and New York, 1907, pp. 264-65) to Motherwell himself.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_706109" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>