selection irish melodies symphonies accompaniments von stevenson sir john thomas moore (4 Ergebnisse)

[circa 1811]. (hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. Various. Folio. Limp cloth, brown with gilt title stamped to the front. Irish music and scores. Pages are lightly age toned at edges, and light water stains intermittently throughout. Faintly starting at the front and rear hinges, otherwise clean and legible, and remarkably well preserved, given the age.

Leather. Zustand: Good. None (illustrator). A very scarce copy of this collection of Irish melodies with accompaniments from Thomas Moore and Sir John Stevenson, volume one only. Volume one of two only. Very scarce. A charming collection of Irish melodies written by Thomas Moore, an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist celebrated for these works. With symphonies and accompaniments from Sir John Andrew Stevenson, an Irish composer best known for his piano arrangements for these melodies. Includes titles such as: After the Battle, Drink to Her, Eveleen's Bower, Ill Omens, and Love's Young Dream. With publisher's advertisements to the rear. Dated from the British Library. Bound in full crushed morocco. Externally, sound with rubbing and wear to the extremities. Fading to the spine with the odd mark to the boards. Minor loss to the head and tail of the spine. Hinges starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with light age toning to the extremities. Light spotting to the first and last few pages. Contemporary ink and pencil inscriptions to the front endpaper. Good. book.

10. London, J. Power's Strand; Dublin, W. Power's, s.d. (1808), in-4°, 32 x 24 cm, Bound with (bound at the beginning) Parry John; A selection of Welsh Melodies, with appr. English Words, adapted for the voice, with symphonies and accompaniments for the Piano Forte or Harp by John Parry, London, Bland & Wellers, s.d. (ca. 1820) engraved title (King Cadwalader at an Eisteddvod) + (6)(with list of subscribers) + 64 pp + 6 pp engraved music. Bound with; .First number. (1)nn pp (printed introduction) + engr. title + engr. dedication (1)(index) + 102 pp (mostly eng. music, some textleaves , one title). Bound with; Idem, idem, A series of Sacred Songs, Duetts and Trios., engraved title + (4) + 77 pp engr. music. Bound with; Idem, idem, A selection of Popular National Airs., (2) + engraved title with large engraving by T. Stothard + (4) + 113 pp engr. music. Contemporary half leather, smooth back with simple gilt lines decorations, marbled boards with leather title label on frontcover (''Melodies''). Binding with some light wear, some slight foxing in the Parry part, but a fine copy.

First American Edition. Folio [35cm x 26cm].10 parts bound into one volume; the 9 parts of the Irish Melodies,comprising 6 "volumes", with title pages, and one volume of Moore's Sacred Songs bound in at the rear. A rather nice, heavily gilded old sheep half binding over marbled boards, rubbed with some fraying and incidental cosmetic splitting to the spine head, corners scuffed and rounded. A binding that has done well to travel 200 years intact, but which hasn't simply strolled all the way here. The rather low grade pastedowns and flyleaves have foxed, but the text block is largely clear of anything other than occasional, mostly marginal foxing. Internally clean, with some occasional creasing and the odd page of slightly faded printing, probably more testament to Blake's eagerness to get the individual parts out than any subsequent wear, the impression on the two full page plates is a little hit and miss too, most notably the "After The Battle" engraving by Pocock and Kearny. Remnants of the original blue paper wraps linger in the gutters of some volumes. A strong and solid collection. George Blake, a British emigree to Philadelphia, began his music publishing venture in 1802, from the address where he had previously taught flute on South 3rd St. His obtaining the rights to publish the fabulously successful Moore and Stevenson Irish Melodies, already a bestseller on the streets of London and Dublin, was a tremendous coup that very much made his name in the early years of his extensive career. Between 1808 and 1825 he continued to distribute the Melodies in various forms and formats, and during this period he also branched out into the works of Handel (he was the first US publisher of "The Messiah" in 1830), a number of pro-American/Anti-British printings of camp songs and marching songs were also produced, and by the 1820's Blake was claiming to offer the largest selection of printed music in the US. The rapidity and vigour of his output means that the majority of his work is undated, and can only be pinned into a time period by factors like textual changes and the address at which he was based. In 1813 Blake expanded out of his 3rd St. address, and into a larger property at 13 South 5th Street. These printings of Irish Melodies, lavishly decorated and densely printed, all bear the 3rd St. address on their engraved title pages, indicating that they were printed between 1808 and 1813, placing them in the first run of publication; the Sacred Songs volume bound in at the rear bears the 5th St. address, indicating it was printed sometime after (although it is noticeable that the price of $4 per issue remains consistent). The first four issues are numbered by hand to the title pages, which looks to have been a Blake in-house convention to allow for printing of general rather than specific title pages for each issue. Each issue contains an index of songs and a description of where they fit into the canon. There is a definite case to be made that the popularity and accessibility of "Irish Melodies" contributed strongly to a cohesive sense of Irish cultural identity within the US. Any issues of the Phildelphia printings of Irish Melodies are thin on the ground, a complete collection even more so.