The Syren, or Vocal enchantress: being a collection of the newest and most admired miscellaneous,--pathetic, and passionate,--Anacreontic and jovial,--comic, ingenious, and witty,--sea, hunting, and Masonic songs. / Selected from the most approved sentimental, humorous, and ingenious publications; including all the best songs of Dibdin Edwin, andc.

Format:

Book

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 50101.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masonic music.

Genre:

Songsters.

Booksellers' advertisements -- Delaware -- Wilmington.

Songs.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 unnumbered pages, 38, 36, 24, 48, 28 id est, 30 pages, 6 unnumbered pages)

Place of Publication:

Wilmington [Del.]; : Printed [by Bonsal and Niles] for and sold by James Wilson, book-seller and stationer, numbers 5 High Street, opposite the Upper Market-House., 1797.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Contains 171 songs.

In five parts. Each has a divisional title with imprint: Wilmington: Printed for Bonsal and Niles, and James Wilson. A variant issue (Lowens 133) has general title-page imprint: Wilmington: Printed by Bonsal and Niles, in Market-Street, 1797.

The index (p. [1-6], last count) lists 176 titles. Lowens reports a variant index of [5] pages in the Brown University copy.

Error in paging: pages 30, part V, misnumbered 28.

Advertisement for books sold by James Wilson, pages [2] of part I.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 50101).

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