Whistle-Binkie; a Collection of Songs for Social Circle. BOUND WITH: Songs for the Nursery

Glasgow, David Robertson...., 1853, 1846. 6 volumes bound in 2. 16mo, 118 x 74 mms., pp. lxxvi, 124 [3] - 124, [3] - 124; xiv, 124, [3] - 182, x, 191 [192 blank], each part with separate paginations, but general title pages dated 1853, with extra woodcut vignette portraits at the front of each volume, and a separate title page to the last part, dated 1846, facsimile signatures of authors in the text, bound in original sage green cloth, stamped in blind to sides and pictorial gilt to spines; a little shaken in casing and cloth slightly faded, but a good set. This is the second collected edition of these works, comprising the first five series of the anthology, together with the supplemental 'Songs for the Nursery', which includes the immortal nursery rhyme 'Wee Willie Winkie'. Carrick commenced publication of this hugely popular anthology of popular Scottish songs in 1832, the term 'Whistle-Binkie' being here applied to any kind of popular entertainer, whether singer, story-teller, or indeed whistler; Carrick helpfully supplied an erudite dissertation on the subject to the 1839 edition; subsequent series were edited by Alexander Roger, eventually running to the five series presented here, the work competed in 1843 with a sixth part called "Songs for the Nursery," a very valuable and curious collection of modern nursery rhymes and songs; there was also a "Supplement to Whistle-Binkie" not included in the present collection, which is, however complete as issued.