Live auction - Lot 870
"Our Scots tunes [...] are for the most part so chearful that on hearing them well played, or sung, we find a difficulty to keep ourselves from dancing"
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The tea-table miscellany: a collection of choice songs, Scots and English [...].
Glasgow, J. Knox, 1765
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
8vo: xiv-434-[6] pp. (some spotting and occ. light soiling).
19th-c. polished sheep, marbled paper boards, spine with raised bands (joints starting to split, joints rubbed, corners bumped).
Curious collection of ballads and songs of his own and of others, compiled by Ramsay (1686-1758), Scottish poet (or "Makar") who revived interest in vernacular literature. With a glossary at the end.
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