Jones, Edward, editor.

Estimate

700 - 1,000 GBP

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Description

Lyric Airs; consisting of specimens of Greek, Albanian, Walachian, Turkish, Arabian, Persian, Chinese, and Moorish national songs and melodies (being the first selection of the kind ever yet offered to the public:) to which are added... a few explanatory notes on the figures and movements of the modern Greek dances; with a short dissertation on the origin of the ancient Greek music. London: printed for the author, 1804

first edition, folio (332 x 230mm.), hand-coloured etched frontispiece by Thomas Rowlandson after Luigi Mayer, 32 pages of engraved music (on 16 leaves), contemporary green half morocco, text somewhat dampstained, binding slightly rubbed and soiled, rebacked retaining most of original spine gilt

Literature

Blackmer 884

Catalogue Note

About half of the songs are Greek.