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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Essays on song-writing: with a collection of such English songs as are most eminent for poetical merit. To which are added some original pieces. [By J. Aikin.].

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Dublin: Thomas Armitage, 1777. Third Edition. Leatherbound. Ex library - fair. xxiii, 286 p. 17 cm. Full leather with raised bands, gilt flowers on spine. Rear hinge separating from spine at top. Corners bumped. Ex lib with ink stamp on title page and rear page. Front endpapers, title page, and verso have have ink blots and notations. Front free endpaper chipped. Rear endpapers missing and there are ink notes to last page. Some stains and foxing within but contents readable. Lyrics or poems by Congreve, Cowley, Dryden, Goldsmith, Marvel, Otway, Smollett, Suckling, etc.

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London: R.H. Evans, 1810. hardcover. near fine. Title page vignette. xxviii, 352pp. Short 8vo, handsomely bound in 19th century tan polished calf (a bit rubbed); marbled page edges. London: Printed for R.H. Evans, 1810. A New Edition with Additions and Corrections, and a Supplement by R. H. Evans.<br/><br/> A work first published in 1772, by the Scottish physician and author, the brother of Anna Letitia Barbauld. "Aikin is better known as a man of letters than as a physician. His elegant scholarship gave a natural polish to all that he wrote." --DNB 1, 186.<br/><br/>

Warrington: Printed by William Eyres, for Joseph Johnson..., 1774. 8vo, 184 x 198 mms., pp. xix [xx blank], 286, contemporary calf, small gilt border on covers, spine ornately gilt to a floral motif, red leather label; binding darkened and a bit rubbed, top and base of spine chipped, slight cracking of upper and lower joints, corners a bit worn. This work is usually attributed to John Aikin (1747 - 1822), a physician and author of various political and biographical works. The genesis of this book came, Aikin says in his Preface, when he and various friends lamented the absence of a good collection of the excellent songs in which song-writing was taken seriously as an art form: "The chief sources of good songs, are the miscellany poems and plays from the time of Charles the second to the conclusion of Queen Ann's reign." He was working in London in 1769-70 and moved to Warrington in 1771, and he might have made the acquaintance of the radical publisher, Johnson, during his brief… Read More

London: R H Evans, 1810. Leather. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". None. A collection of essays on the art of song-writing, with examples of traditional English songs. Covering different types of folk songs, with chapters entitled Witty Songs, Descriptive Songs, and Pastoral Songs, amongst others. New edition, with supplements and corrections. With vignette title page. In a half-morocco binding with marbled boards. Externally sound, with some rubbing to the boards and some wear to the spine and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages have some scattered spotting throughout. Very Good

R. H. Evans. London. 1810. NEW EDITION. The first Evans edition. 8vo. (7.6 x 5 inches). xxviii,352pp. A fine clean copy in attractive mid twentieth century leather binding, by T. F. Ford, of full brown calf. Spine decorated with gilt bands and piping and floral centre pieces in the compartments. Black label, gilt. Both boards with decorative border design in gilt and small black labels within a decorative design, lettered "T. F. F. 1943". Inner dentelles in gilt. Plain magnolia endpapers. Top edge gilt. A small neat ink note inside the rear cover states that the book was 'rebound by T F Ford 1943' and a neat five line inscription on the front free end-paper shows that the book was bound by Thomas F Ford, Architect and presented by his sons to Canon L B Tirrell on his retirement in November 1971. ---- 'Thomas Francis Ford. FRIBA (9 May 1891 â€" 11 January 1971) was a prolific ecclesiastical architect, Diocesan Architect for Southwark, an Ashpitel Prize winner at the Royal Institute of British… Read More

R.H. Evans. London.,1810. New edition, The first Evans edition. 8vo. (7.7 x5.2 inches). xxviii,352pp. A very good copy in early half tan calf, spine with raised bands, each decorated with gilt floral role. Compartments ruled and decorated in gilt. Black label, gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Marbled endpapers. Previous owners bookplate on front paste down. All edges marbled. A very good copy in a fine nineteenth century binding.:

London: Printed for Joseph Johnson...[no date], [1772]. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 186 x 113 mms., pp. xvi, 280, contemporary tree calf, gilt border on covers, rebacked, new red morocco label; large triangular piece cut from title-page with loss, facsimile of title-page tipped in. This work is usually attributed to John Aikin (1747 - 1822), a physician and author of various political and biographical works. The genesis of this book came, Aikin says in his Preface, when he and various friends lamented the absence of a good collection of the excellent songs in which song-writing was taken seriously as an art form: "The chief sources of good songs, are the miscellany poems and plays from the time of Charles the second to the conclusion of Queen Ann's reign." He was working in London in 1769-70 and moved to Warrington in 1771, and he might have made the acquaintance of the radical publisher, Johnson, during his brief sojourn in London. His political leanings were liberal, and Johnson… Read More

London: Printed for Joseph Johnson, 1772. First edition. xvi, 280 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sheep, spine and joints worn, front hinge started, some rubbing, usual marginal browning of endpapers otherwise a very clean and pleasant copy from the Lonsdale Library with the bookplate. First edition. xvi, 280 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The compiler of these songs said that the idea for this work came about when a group of friends were bemoaning the lack of good music at that time. They discussed it and Aiken decided to gather "good" songs, these came mostly from the past and from the time of Charles II to the end of Anne's reign. These were then examined and judged from a poetical merit point of view. These selections are included, with their authors identified when possible. Aiken has included an essay on songwriting and some of his original works.

Warrington: Printed By William Eyres, For Joseph Johnson, 1774., 1774. 8vo. pp. xix, 286 modern quarter calf over older cloth sides (some modest foxing throughout). Second Edition (first: 1772) of this scholarly examination of song-writing and pastoral poetry by the English physician and man of letters. "[Aikin’s] elegant scholarship gave a natural polish to all that he wrote, and his varied attainments, as well as his moral uprightness, earned him many friends, among whom were Dr. Priestley, Pennant, the naturalist, Dr. Darwin, James Montgomery, John Howard, the philanthopist, and, for a time, the poet, Southey." (DNB) NCBEL II 23.. Hardcover.