Lot 193
Songs and Tales - Scottish, Kilmarnock - Burns, MacNeil and others
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 January 2015 at 11:00 GMT
Description
16 bound publications of Scottish folk songs and tales, some compilations, early 19th century, mainly published in Kilmarnock, 8vo, contemporary red half morocco gilt, t.e.g.: 1) Two Songs (Blaeberry Courtship; Fair Helen of the Spey), Kilmarnock, 6pp. 2) Two Songs (Flowers of the Forest; Jonny Cope's Defeat at the Battle of Prestonpans), Kilmarnock, 8pp. 3) Three Songs (Corunna's Lone Shore; The Rigs of Barley; The Woodland Maid), Kilmarnock, 8pp. 4) Four Songs (Star of the East; The Rich Lady's Wedding; The Wounded Hussar; The spinning o't), Kilmarnock, 8pp. 5) Four Songs (Bundle and Go; A New Love Song; The Buxom Young Dame; Love and Duty), Kilmarnock, 8pp. 6) Four Songs (Severn's Bonnie Stream; Innocent Mirth; The Highland Queen; Ben the Sailor), Kilmarnock, 8pp. 7) Four songs (Lawrie O'Broom's Ramble through Scotland; the Red Mantles; Paddy Whack; Banished Soldier), Kilmarnock, 8pp. 8) Four songs (The Braes of Gleniffer; Shannon and Chesapeake; fourteenth of April; Fly not yet), Kilmarnock, 8pp. 9) Five songs (Broom of the Cowdenknowes; The Vicar of Bray; Faithless Emma Paddy McShane's Seven Ages; The Woodland Maid), Kilmarnock, 8pp. 10) Five Songs (Black Eyed Susan; O Gin My Love Were Yon Red Rose; My Tocher's the Jewel; Bessy's Lament; The Undaunted Maiden), Kilmarnock, 8pp. 11) Five songs (The Wounded Hussar; One Bottle More Robin and Jean's Courtship; The Spinning o't; Flaxen were her Ringlets), Kilmarnock, 8pp. 12) Young Grigor's Ghost, Kilmarnock, 8pp. 13) The Weeping Mother and the Disobedient Daughter, Kilmarnock, 8pp. 14) Montgomery/'J.D.' The Cherry and the Sloe. Kilmarnock, 1817, 24pp. 15) MacGriggor, John. Fun upon Fun, 1820, 24pp. 16) MacNeil, Hector. Scotland's Skaith... Ayr, 1817, 24pp.
Footnote
Note: Several of these items appear to be rare. There are no records on Copac (UK National Academic and Specialist Library Catalogue) for numbers 3, 6, 7 & 12.