An edition of The bardic museum of primitive British literature and other admirable rarities (1802)

The bardic museum of primitive British literature and other admirable rarities

forming the second volume of the Musical, poetical, and historical relicks of the Welsh bards and druids: drawn from authentic documents of remote antiquity, (with great pains now rescued from obliviion,) and never before published : containing, the bardic triads, historic odes, eulogies, songs, elegies, memorials of the tombs of the warriors, of King Arthur and his knights, regalias, the wonders of Wales, et cætera : with English translations and historic illustrations : likewise, the ancient war-tunes of the bards ... : to these national melodies are added new basses, with variations, for the harp, or harpsichord, violin or flute, (dedicated by permission to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales)

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An edition of The bardic museum of primitive British literature and other admirable rarities (1802)

The bardic museum of primitive British literature and other admirable rarities

forming the second volume of the Musical, poetical, and historical relicks of the Welsh bards and druids: drawn from authentic documents of remote antiquity, (with great pains now rescued from obliviion,) and never before published : containing, the bardic triads, historic odes, eulogies, songs, elegies, memorials of the tombs of the warriors, of King Arthur and his knights, regalias, the wonders of Wales, et cætera : with English translations and historic illustrations : likewise, the ancient war-tunes of the bards ... : to these national melodies are added new basses, with variations, for the harp, or harpsichord, violin or flute, (dedicated by permission to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales)

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Printed by A. Strahan, Printer-Street, for the author ...
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Subjects

Bards and bardism, Folk songs, Welsh, Translations into English, Welsh Folk songs, Welsh poetry

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To 1550

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The bardic museum of primitive British literature and other admirable rarities: forming the second volume of the Musical, poetical, and historical relicks of the Welsh bards and druids: drawn from authentic documents of remote antiquity, (with great pains now rescued from obliviion,) and never before published : containing, the bardic triads, historic odes, eulogies, songs, elegies, memorials of the tombs of the warriors, of King Arthur and his knights, regalias, the wonders of Wales, et cætera : with English translations and historic illustrations : likewise, the ancient war-tunes of the bards ... : to these national melodies are added new basses, with variations, for the harp, or harpsichord, violin or flute, (dedicated by permission to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales)
1802, Printed by A. Strahan, Printer-Street, for the author ...
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Edition Notes

"Jones had prepared a third volume, a portion only of which was published at his death, the remainder being issued subsequently."--Grove, Dict. of music.

Hand-colored etched frontispiece by Rowlandson, after a design by Ibbetson and J. Smith.

Pages 61-112 consist of engraved music.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gift to Victoria University Library. Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.

Some poems are given in Welsh or Latin, with parallel English translation.

Victoria University Library copy lacks col. frontispiece.

Victoria University Library copy has imprint date corrected in MS to 1803 and address of imprint crossed out.

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London
Series
Blake -- no. 1177
Genre
Translations into English.

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M1742.A2 J772

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xx, 112 p., [1] leaf of plates :
Number of pages
112

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OL19370623M

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