Popular music of the olden time; a collection of ancient songs, ballads, and dance tunes, illlustrative of the native music of England. /. With short introductions to the different reigns, and notices of the airs from writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; also a short account of the minstrels ; by W. Chappell, ... ; the whole of the airs harmonized by G. A. Macfarren.
William Chappell (1809-1888)
Category
Books
Date
1859
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Stoneywell Cottage, Leicestershire
NT 3008650
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plates : col. front., music, facsims. ; 27cm. Rear endpaper pencil manuscript page reference (v.1). Provenance: inscribed (v.1) Basil L. Gimson 1924 (bound May 1942)” inscribed with reference to binding “this little bit from Janet with love” [i.e. Janet Dinah Roscoe, née Gimson (1914-2002); note varies in v.2]. Binding: twentieth-century half brown morocco, light brown cloth on boards; five false bands; gold lettered spine. Stamped: Cross, binder, Leicester.
Makers and roles
William Chappell (1809-1888) Sir George Alexander Macfarren (1813-1887)