Lot 150
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[Bagpipe music] Mackay, Angus
A Collection of Ancient Piobaireachd, or Highland Pipe Music


Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Edinburgh: published by the editor, 1838. First edition, 4to, lithographic title-page and dedication leaf, [4] 16 pp. letterpress, iii 171 pp. lithographic music, 16 pp., letterpress at rear, original cloth with paper label to upper cover, later cloth spine, some darkening and soiling to covers and internally, outer leaves brittle along edges, a few concomitant chips, repairs to final 2 leaves, title-page and final leaf strengthened with cloth tape in gutter
Footnote
Rare first edition of this ‘historic’ collection of bagpipe music (Akard, Music of the Great Highland Bagpipe, 2021, p. 27). Mackay was piper to Queen Victoria and the work was published with the support of the Highland Society of London.

