Calliope: Or, the Musical Miscellany. A Select Collection of the Most Approved English, Scots, and Irish Songs, set to Music Hardback - 2018

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Huntington Library

N004821

Drop-head title on. [1]: 'Calliope: or the vocal enchantress. "The publisher of the following compilation having come by accident into the possesion of the first 192 pages, .. of The musical miscellany, .. published at Perth in 1786, he immediately resolved to finish the volume on a more enlarged plan .. this may properly be considered as a new edition, .." (preface).

London: printed for C. Elliot and T. Kay; and C. Elliot, Edinburgh, 1788. [2], viii,472p.: ill., music; 8