Musical illustrations of Bishop Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. A collection of Old Ballads Tunes, etc. Chiefly from rare MSS. and early printed books. Deciphered from the obsolete notation, and harmonized and arranged [...]

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Full title: Musical illustrations of Bishop Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. A collection of Old Ballads Tunes, etc. Chiefly from rare MSS. and early printed books. Deciphered from the obsolete notation, and harmonized and arranged according to modern usage, by Edward F. Rimbault, LL. D. Member of the Royal Academy of Music at Stockholm; corresponding member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, etc. etc. 4to. pp. xii, 119. Includes frontispiece portrait of Thomas Percy and sheet music. B.H. Bronson’s copy (cf. ownership inscription on front flyleaf and title page), with some annotations; dedicated to John Payne Collier. For ‘Bishop Percy’s Reliques of ancient English poetry, consisting of old heroic ballads, songs, and other pieces of our earlier poets’ (London, 1765), see Bib# 4103138/Fr# 484 in this collection. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.