The Scotish musical museum
Subtitle: consisting of upwards of six hundred songs, with proper basses for the pianoforte
By: originally published by James Johnson ; and now accompanied with copious notes and illustrations of the lyric poetry and music of Scotland, by the late William Stenhouse
Contributors: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796; Clarke, Stephen, -1797; Stenhouse, William, 1773-1827; Laing, David, 1793-1878; Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, 1781-1851
Publisher: William Blackwood and Sons
Published: 1839
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Subjects: Songs with piano; Scots Folk songs; Musical settings; Scottish Songs; Scots Ballads; English Folk songs
Other titles: Johnson's Scots musical museum.
Notes: Paged continuously.

The facsimile is a letter from Burns to Johnson.

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): The Scots musical museum ... humbly dedicated to the Society of antiquaries of Scotland ...

Stenhouse's "Illustrations" published separately, 1853.

Includes index.

Dr. James and Dr. Margaret Whitby donation.