The bardic museum, of primitive british literature; and other admirable rarities. Forming the second volume of the Musical, Poetical, and Historical Relicks of The Welsh Bards and Druids: drawn from authentic documents of remote antiquity.

[ROWLANDSON, Thomas]. JONES, Edward

Verlag: Printed by A. Strahan.for the Author, London, 1802

Beschreibung

xx, 60pp, 61-112pp engraved music. With hand-coloured etched frontispiece by Thomas Rowlandson. Contemporary gilt-tooled green half-morocco, with alternating harp and Prince of Wales' feathers devices to spine. A trifle rubbed to extremities, surfaces, occasional pencilled annotation and underlining, else a crisp copy. Edward Jones, "Bardd y Brenin" (1752-1824), Welsh harpist, musical scholar and Eisteddfod judge. This work, separately published, formed the second volume of the monumental The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards (London, 1784), which was the output of a life's work collecting and editing early Welsh poetry and music. The hand-coloured frontispiece etching by English artist Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) after Ibbetson and Smith depicts a harpist surrounded by a band of young singers amidst (presumably) the Welsh mountains. Jackson p.260. Size: Folio. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers AQ27483

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Titel: The bardic museum, of primitive british ...

Verlag: Printed by A. Strahan.for the Author, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1802

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: First edition.