Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards:

JONES Edward (1752-1824)

Published by Richard Rees and Goulding, D'Almaine, and Co., No 14, Percy Street, London. and Soho Square. London, 1825

About this Item

VG, 4th ed, 1806 and 1824 watermarks, 3 pls. In half long grain worn morocco, gilt tooling, over 20c grey boards, corners a little worn & bumped. Spine, relaid, title faded. Internally, new end papers, has the uncoloured Loutherbourg frontis, [4], [1],(ii-iv), 185 pp, (1-123 pp of text, 124-185 music), 3 pls (1 dated 1808), light browning and foxing throughout, small ink notation at head of title page and at page 124, plus removed tape mark at tp gutter. The better 'fuller' edition. (Hotten 5204 p16. Not listed at Libri Walliae), See ODNB. Uncommon, COPAC shows copies at Liverpool and Oxford only, whilst WorldCat shows a copy at Yale. Title continues: Preserved by tradition and authentic manuscripts from very remote antiquity; and never before published: consisting of The National Songs and Airs of Wales, arranged with Variations for the Harp, Piano-Forte, Violin or Flute; A Selection of Pennillion and Englynion or Poetical Blossoms. And a History of the Bards and Druids, from the earliest period with an account of their music and poetry. To which is prefixed, a dissertation on the musical instruments of the ancient Britons.

Seller Inventory # 004056

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards:
• Publisher: Richard Rees and Goulding, D'Almaine, and Co., No 14, Percy Street, London. and Soho Square. London
• Publication Date: 1825
• Language: English
• Binding: Half Leather
• Illustrator: LOUTHERBOURG. JONES. Etc
• Edition: Fourth Edition, with Additions.
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1.6 kilograms
• Seller catalogs:
  • Music Dance Ballads Stage Acting Theatre
  • Welsh Bards