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Antient and modern Scotish songs, heroic ballads, &c. ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR8651 .H4 1791 2 v. (v.1-2)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herd, David, 1732-1810.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ballads, English--Scotland.
- Ballads, English.
- Folk songs, English--Scotland.
- Folk songs, English.
- Scotland.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph)
- Lea, Charlotte H. (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes ; 18 cm (12mo)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Lawrie and Symington [etc.], 1791.
- Notes:
- Title vignette.
- First appeared, anonymously, in 1769 in one volume, and in 1776 in two volumes. cf. Herd, D. Songs from David Herd's manuscripts, ed. by Hans Hecht. Edinburgh, 1904.
- George Paton is sometimes credited with a share in the first edition. cf. Dict. nat. biog. and Pref. to ed. of 1869.
- OCLC:
- 2753123
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