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 Songs, John Aikin

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First edition

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. Item #211750 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

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