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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 ... containing the Bardic Triads; Historic Odes; Eulogies; Songs; Elegies ... 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;
By Edward Jones, Bard to the Prince.
London: Printed by A. Strahan, Printer-Street, for the Author; 1802. (Price 1/. 5s.) Entered at Stationer's Hall.
Book; small folio (340 x 250mm, 13¼ x 9¾"), text and sheet music with lyrics complete as issued. With hand coloured etched frontispiece by Rowlandson after Ibbetson and J. Smith, of figures gathered around a harpist playing on a hillside. Unmarked blue paper-covered binding with calf spine. Binding chipped, scuffed and rubbed; paper covers tearing. Spine largely worn away, front cover disbound. Sheets slightly foxed, some offsetting to music sheets.
Edward Jones (1752 - 1824), known as Bardd y Brenin, or the King's Bard, was a musician and Welsh writer. He taught music to many persons of rank and was appointed bard to the Prince of Wales, an honorary office, in 1783. In 1784 he published ‘Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, preserved by Tradition and Authentic Manuscripts from very remote Antiquity, with a Collection of the Pennillion and Englynion, Epigrammatic Stanzas or native Pastoral Sonnets of Wales, a History of the Bards from the Earliest Period, and an Account of their Music, Poetry, and Musical Instruments,’ London, folio, in 2 parts; republished with additions in 1794. This companion volume was issued in 1802. These works, largely based on the author's original researches among unpublished Welsh manuscripts, rescued and preserved some of the oldest Welsh airs extant. In many ways Jones can be said to have invented Wales as the 'land of song', while defining its people as 'aboriginal Britons' and as the oldest musical nation in Europe. A scarce Rowlandson image.
British Library: 004439254.
[Ref: 10521] £500.00
By Edward Jones, Bard to the Prince.
London: Printed by A. Strahan, Printer-Street, for the Author; 1802. (Price 1/. 5s.) Entered at Stationer's Hall.
Book; small folio (340 x 250mm, 13¼ x 9¾"), text and sheet music with lyrics complete as issued. With hand coloured etched frontispiece by Rowlandson after Ibbetson and J. Smith, of figures gathered around a harpist playing on a hillside. Unmarked blue paper-covered binding with calf spine. Binding chipped, scuffed and rubbed; paper covers tearing. Spine largely worn away, front cover disbound. Sheets slightly foxed, some offsetting to music sheets.
Edward Jones (1752 - 1824), known as Bardd y Brenin, or the King's Bard, was a musician and Welsh writer. He taught music to many persons of rank and was appointed bard to the Prince of Wales, an honorary office, in 1783. In 1784 he published ‘Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, preserved by Tradition and Authentic Manuscripts from very remote Antiquity, with a Collection of the Pennillion and Englynion, Epigrammatic Stanzas or native Pastoral Sonnets of Wales, a History of the Bards from the Earliest Period, and an Account of their Music, Poetry, and Musical Instruments,’ London, folio, in 2 parts; republished with additions in 1794. This companion volume was issued in 1802. These works, largely based on the author's original researches among unpublished Welsh manuscripts, rescued and preserved some of the oldest Welsh airs extant. In many ways Jones can be said to have invented Wales as the 'land of song', while defining its people as 'aboriginal Britons' and as the oldest musical nation in Europe. A scarce Rowlandson image.
British Library: 004439254.
[Ref: 10521] £500.00
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[Funeral Invitation for Sir Joshua Reynolds.] The Executors & Family of Sir Joshua Reynolds return thanks for the tribute of respect paid to departed Genius & Virtue, by your attendance at the funeral of that illustrious painter & most amiable man, in St Pauls Cathedral, on Saturday, March 3.d 1792.
E.F.Burney del. F.Bartolozzi R.A. Sculps.
[1792.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 190 x 135mm (7½ x 5¼"). Trimmed into plate. Time stained.
Ticket thanking people for attending the funeral of Sir Joshua Reynolds who died in London on 23 February 1792. His body lay in state for a day at Somerset House and his funeral took place at St Paul's Cathedral.
DeV 1980 III of III
[Ref: 64260] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
E.F.Burney del. F.Bartolozzi R.A. Sculps.
[1792.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 190 x 135mm (7½ x 5¼"). Trimmed into plate. Time stained.
Ticket thanking people for attending the funeral of Sir Joshua Reynolds who died in London on 23 February 1792. His body lay in state for a day at Somerset House and his funeral took place at St Paul's Cathedral.
DeV 1980 III of III
[Ref: 64260] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[Vespertina Quies.]
[Etched by Émile Boilvin after Edward Burne-Jones]
Copyright 1897 by Mess.rs Arthur Tooth & Son, Publishers, 5 & 6 Haymarket, London, 295. Fifth Avenue New York, & Mess.rs Stiefbold & Co Berlin, Printed by Mess.rs A. Salmon & Ardail, Paris.
Etching on vellum, signed by Boilvin in pencil. Limited edition of 275 signed proofs. Printed area 395 x 255mm (15½ x 10"), with very large margins. Ink stamp in image corner bottom left.
'Evening Quiet': a woman leans against a balustrade, pensively playing with a ring on her finger, a pose reminiscent of Italian Renaissance portraits. We believe this is a pre publication proof as it does not have the Printsellers' Stamp. It comes from a collection of Solvin proofs (Paris) The model for the oil (pained 1893 and now in the Tate, N05176) is belived to be Elizabeth Keene.
[Ref: 59622] £1,500.00
[Etched by Émile Boilvin after Edward Burne-Jones]
Copyright 1897 by Mess.rs Arthur Tooth & Son, Publishers, 5 & 6 Haymarket, London, 295. Fifth Avenue New York, & Mess.rs Stiefbold & Co Berlin, Printed by Mess.rs A. Salmon & Ardail, Paris.
Etching on vellum, signed by Boilvin in pencil. Limited edition of 275 signed proofs. Printed area 395 x 255mm (15½ x 10"), with very large margins. Ink stamp in image corner bottom left.
'Evening Quiet': a woman leans against a balustrade, pensively playing with a ring on her finger, a pose reminiscent of Italian Renaissance portraits. We believe this is a pre publication proof as it does not have the Printsellers' Stamp. It comes from a collection of Solvin proofs (Paris) The model for the oil (pained 1893 and now in the Tate, N05176) is belived to be Elizabeth Keene.
[Ref: 59622] £1,500.00