IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 253495 accession number: MU.502.2 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Monday 12 October 2020 updated: Wednesday 2 December 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Select melodies of Scotland. For 1-2 voices and piano. For the most part, the songs are taken from the various folio volumes of Thomson's 'A selection collection of original Scottish/Welsh/Irish airs'. Engraved music interleaved with letterpress song texts with duplicate numbering (p. 1-50); actually there are 52 (1 and 41 used twice) pages of engraved music and 47 (13-14, 41 omitted) pages of printed text. Colophon and plates dated 1822. Letterpress colophon: Edinburgh : "Printed by John Moir for the proprietor G. Thomson, Royal Exchange, Edinburgh, 1822." Title page signed by the proprietor "G. Thomson". "Engd. by Wm. Balbirnie, 105 High St. Edinr."--foot of p. 1 of music. Price 12/-.. Songs, Scots. Songs, English Scotland. Songs, English Ireland. Songs, English Wales. Songs with piano. title: MU.502.2 NOTES ----- type: history note value: MU.502 received "Bound by F. Bedford" in full calf with gilt line borders and gilt tooled spine with red leather labels.UkCU-FWM LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/253495 CATEGORIES ------ category: printed music DATING ------ DIMENSIONS ---------- value: 1 score ([2], 50, 50, [3] pages, [2] leaves of plates) ;26 cm; 1 score ([2], 50, 50, [3] pages, [2] leaves of plates) ;26 cm;