containing 29 ballads and songs, some Irish and Scottish, including 'In Infancy', 'Thou Soft Flowing Avon', 'Yet Awhile Sweet Sleep Deceive Me' 'Cupid God of Soft Persuasion' by Thomas Arne; 'London Sights' , 'I Lock'd up All My Treasure : a Favorite Song in the Quaker' by C. Dibdin; 'A Rose Tree Full in Bearing', 'The Maid of the Mill', by William Shield; 'This is the House that Jack Built'; 'One Kind Kiss'; 'Widow Sanderson'; 'One Bottle More', 'This Bottle's The Sun of Our Table'; arrangements by John Parry and other works by, C. Dibdin, Linley, Monsigny and Pleyel.
by MUSIC ALBUM OF LAMBERT LOVEDAY [1760-1840]
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Ilminster, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Engraved music and words, 104 pages numbered in ink, some waterstaining to a few leaves. folio (13.5 x 10in) contemp. half red morocco gilt, red leather label in gilt with arms of Lambert Loveday, wear on extremities, reback with red cloth, Lambert Loveday was the son of a London apothecary. He was commissioned into the East India Company in 1778 and rose to the rank of Lieutenant-General in 1837. Presumably these songs would have reminded him of home.
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- Bookseller
- R.G. Watkins Books and Prints
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RGW18087
- Title
- containing 29 ballads and songs, some Irish and Scottish, including 'In Infancy', 'Thou Soft Flowing Avon', 'Yet Awhile Sweet Sleep Deceive Me' 'Cupid God of Soft Persuasion' by Thomas Arne; 'London Sights' , 'I Lock'd up All My Treasure : a Favorite Song in the Quaker' by C. Dibdin; 'A Rose Tree Full in Bearing', 'The Maid of the Mill', by William Shield; 'This is the House that Jack Built'; 'One Kind Kiss'; 'Widow Sanderson'; 'One Bottle More', 'This Bottle's The Sun of Our Table'; arrangements by John Parry and other works by, C. Dibdin, Linley, Monsigny and Pleyel.
- Author
- MUSIC ALBUM OF LAMBERT LOVEDAY [1760-1840]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- c.1800-1830. music irish literature moore folk song romantic scottish
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R.G. Watkins Books and Prints
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Ilminster, Somerset
About R.G. Watkins Books and Prints
Established in Somerset, England in 1985, with retail premises, we now sell principally on the internet. Apart from selling to collectors and other dealers, we have many libraries and museums among our customers. Our aim is offer interesting and unusual items printed, written or drawn on paper.
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