The Jovial Songster or Musical Museum, Replete with Select Fashionable Songs
London & Paisley: Published by Vernor & Hood and H. Crichton, No date, early 1800s. 12mo. iv, [1], 6-180 pp. J. Neilson, Printer. Woodcut frontispiece of a womand playing a lyre; woodcut endpieces. Includes Contents alphabetically listing the poems by the first sentence of each poem with corresponding page number. Early three-quarter brown leather with five raised bands & gilt decoration to spine; gilt lettering on red leather label; marbled paper covered boards. Short closed tear on foreedge of one page; paper along front hinge separated but holding; light wear & rubbing to covers and joints; a very good copy. A curious little poetry book; we find no examples of this title in the market, in auction records nor online institutions. Item #21306
Includes Robert Burns' poems "The Soldier's Return", "Ae Day a Braw Wooer", "My Nanny, O", "On the Bank of Flowers"; and one poem by W. Reid. The author(s) of the remaing poems are not indicated.
Price: $150.00