Ancient Scots ballads : with the traditional airs to which they were wont to be sung / edited by George Eyre-Todd ; with harmonies for the pianoforte arranged by Emile Berger
London : Bayley & Ferguson, 1895. 1st Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #332180
Date is suggested. Physical description: 1 vocal score (217 pages); 33 cm. Notes: "One hundred and fifty copies are printed on Van Gelder's Dutch hand-made paper, separately numbered and specially bound, with a frontispiece, "The Jolly Beggar," specially painted by Harrington Mann." Contents: As I cam' doun by yon castle wa' -- Barbara Allan -- Binno?rie -- Bonnie George Campbell -- Bonnie Jeanie Cameron -- Fair Helen of Kirkconnel -- Fair Janet -- Fine flowers of the valley -- Gil Morice -- Glenlogie -- Hughie Graham -- Hunting-tower -- Johnnie Armstrang -- Johnnie Faa -- Leezie Lindsay -- Lord Gergory -- Lord Ronald -- May Colvin -- My jo, Janet -- O saw ye my father? -- Our gudeman -- Rare Willie drowned in Yarrow -- Sir Patrick Spens -- Tamlane -- The barrin' o' our door -- The battle of Harlaw -- The battle of Otterbourne -- The bonnie Earl o' Moray -- The bonnie house o' Airlie -- The border widow's lament -- The broom o' the Cowdenknowes -- The cauldrife wooer -- The Douglas tragedy -- The dowie dens o' Yarrow -- The gaberlunzieman -- The jolly beggar -- The laird o' Cockpen -- The lowlands o' Holland -- The nut-brown bride -- The twa corbies -- The wee, wee man -- The wife of Usher's Well -- Tibbie Fowler -- Waly, waly, gin love be bonnie -- William's ghost -- Wooed and married and a' -- Young waters. Subjects: Ballads, Scots. Folk songs Scotland; Scores. Songs with piano; Scores. Songs, Scots. Songs, English Scotland. Songs with piano.
Price: €295.00