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The universal songster; or, Museum of mirth: forming the most complete, extensive, and valuable collection of ancient and modern songs in the English language: with a copious and classified index, which will, under its various heads, refer the reader to the following description of songs, viz. ancient, amatory, Bacchanalian, comic (English), Dibdin's miscellaneous, duets, trios, glees, chorusses, Irish, Jews, Masonic, military, naval, Scotch, sentimental, sporting, Welsh, Yorkshire, & c, embellished with a humorous characteristic frontispiece and twenty-nine wood-cuts
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The universal songster; or, Museum of mirth: forming the most complete, extensive, and valuable collection of ancient and modern songs in the English language: with a copious and classified index, which will, under its various heads, refer the reader to the following description of songs, viz. ancient, amatory, Bacchanalian, comic (English), Dibdin's miscellaneous, duets, trios, glees, chorusses, Irish, Jews, Masonic, military, naval, Scotch, sentimental, sporting, Welsh, Yorkshire, & c, embellished with a humorous characteristic frontispiece and twenty-nine wood-cuts / designed by George and Robert Cruikshank, and engraved by J.R. Marshall.
Publication
London : Jones and Co., Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square, [1832?]
Physical Description
3 volumes (448, 448, 448 pages) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Notes
Song texts without music; tunes indicated by subtitles.
Each volume has its own table of contents (labeled "index").
Added title and half-title pages, engraved.
Each volume contains a frontispiece, etched on steel, and 28 woodcuts.
Group of portraits in volume 1 dated 1832; frontispieces of vols. 1-2 dated 1826; vol. 3, 1827.
Provenance
All three volumes have presentation bookplates from William Furness to the Ravenstonedale Library dated 1893 on the front paste-down, and rules for the library on the back paste-down, and the autograph of William Furness on the title pages. Each has a number written on the frontpaste down: no. 13, 14, 15, in order of volumes.
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Museum of mirth
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English
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October 10, 2024
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