[Songs]

[Henry Playford]. The Pleasant Musical Companion; Being a Choice Collection of Catches For Three and Four Voices. Compos'd by Dr. John blow, the late Mr. Henry Purcell, and other Eminent Masters. London: William Pearson for John Young, 1724. 0blong 8vo (6 3/8 x 8 3/8 in.; 162 x 212 mm). Woodcut music throughout; margins soiled and edge-stained from binding, lower portion of fore-edge gnawed without loss. Contemporary mottled calf; worn, backstrip gone. — [Herd, David]. Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc. In Two Volumes. Edinburgh: Printed by John Witherspoon, for James Dickson and Charles Elliot, 1776. 2 volumes, 8vo (7 x 4 in.; 178 x 102 mm). Half-titles and engraved title vignettes in each volume. Contemporary mottled calf; joints and corners worn. Pencil note on front flyleaf and some other annotations by Iona Opie, 1 leaf of bibliographic notes by Peter Opie laid in. — James Hook. A Christmas Box Containing the following Bagatelles. Goosy Goosy Gander, See Saw Margery Daw. Little Jack Horner, Sat in a Corner ... Set to Music by Mr. Hook. London: A. Bland & Wellers, [1797]. Folio (13 x 9 3/4 in.; 330 x 248 mm). Engraved music throughout; title on guard. Modern marbled boards. — The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life. In 74 Copper Plates … P. Tempest excudit. London: Henry Overton, 1711. Folio (13 ¼ x 8 ¼ in.; 336 x 210 mm). Suite of 74 engraved plates including title; plates 1, 11, 24 mended at fore-margin without loss, some marginal soiling. 19^th-century three-quarter leather, gilt ruled, gilt-stamped title on spine.

Johnson: A. S. Blackwood (signature on front pastedowns) — Dufferin Claneboye (engraved armorial bookplates in vols 3-4) — Iona & Peter Opie (stamp on front pastedowns) — Playford: Iona & Peter Opie (stamp on front pastedown) _ Cryes: Marcus Crahan (bookplate) — Herd: S. Rawlinson (stamp on front flyleaf within painted wreath) — Iona & Peter Opie (stamp on front pastedown)

Johnson: Opie, Three Centuries 12 (citing vol 5 only); John Playford: RISM P-553; Wing P-2490; Day & Murrie, English Song-Books 36; Henry Playford: see Opie 5 (citing a 1673 edition); Hook: Opie 25; Herd: New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature 2:245

Herd: Second edition, first published in 1769 as Ancient and Modern Scots Songs. "Eleven of these songs have survived as nursery rhymes (and one as a singing game) - see esp. vol. 2" (Iona Opie, pencil note on front flyleaf). The songs were collected and edited by David Herd (1732-1810), who, as a clerk to an accountant in Edinburgh, devoted his leisure to collecting such material.