Fairburn's Everlasting Songster being an extensive collection of One Thousand Naval, Love, Comic, Hunting, Bacchanalian, Sentimental, Scotch, & Irish Songs

[no author given] (J. Fairburn) (George Cruikshank?)

Verlag: J. Fairburn, [London], 1830

Beschreibung

Small octavo, one volume, printed in two columns. Per OCLC, this one-volume stated fourth edition probably dates to 1830. Engraved title page and frontispiece "after George Cruikshank," per the Cohn bibliography (269). Bound in 19th century 3/4 polished navy calf and marbled boards, with red morocco spine label. Edges stained red. 20th century gift inscription upside down on the rear free endpaper, else unmarked. One leaf age-toned from a laid-in sheet of paper, now gone. Some rubbing to extremities Frontispiece and title illustration in later (or possibly contemporary) hand-color; not too expert, but adequately done. A very good example. A scarce little book, appearing infrequently in commerce and at auction. The songs are naturally written in embellished dialects, and are occasionally offensive to modern readers. One imagines, however, that some of these songs are obscure; nearly lost to history. Per OCLC, we count just four physical holdings of this one-volume edition, and found none of any edition in commerce; nor in auction records in the past thirty years. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 10303

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Fairburn's Everlasting Songster being an ...

Verlag: J. Fairburn, [London]

Erscheinungsdatum: 1830

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very good

Auflage: Fourth Edition.