Shelfmark
Idd8.2.04
Title
Songs of the gardens / edited by Peter Warlock.
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London] : The Nonesuch Press, 1925.
Physical description
96 p. : ill., music ; 27 cm.
Note
"Representative selection of the songs that were sung at the London Pleasure Gardens during the latter half of the eighteenth century."--Preface
Note
Includes title-vignette and tail-pieces. Title, text and music within ornamental border.
Note
Music by Michael and T.A. Arne, Boyce, Granom, Hook, Smart, and others. Mostly with tune and bass; interlinear words.
Note
Principally for voice and continuo.
Note
Designed by Hubert J. Foss and Francis Meynell. 875 copies printed at the Curwen Press.
Note
Eight hundred and seventy-five copies have been printed by the offset lithographic process at the Curwen Press. The music and its accompanying text have been engraved by Lowe & Brydone ... The title page design has been made and engraved by Stephen Gooden; the miscellaneous eighteenth century ornaments have been engraved in wood by W.M.R. Quick.
Formatted contents note
Contents: The preface -- The lover's lesson / Michael Arne -- The air balloon / Oakman ; Thos. Smart -- O whither can my William stray / James Hook -- Here's the pretty girl I love / Hook ; Upton -- An ode to contentment / S. Boyce ; Joseph Baildon -- The masquerade song / Wm. Defesch -- The pleasures of spring gardens, Vauxhall / Lockman ; Boyce -- Go, deceitful fair one, leave me / Ferdinando Tenducci -- Ye gentle gales / Lewis Granom -- The bonny broom / T.A. Arne -- Disappointment: a pastoral / Arne -- The Phoenix / T.A. Arne -- As Colin rang'd early -- The fairing -- The sad case -- A dialogue between a gypsie boy and girl / Arne -- We soldiers drink, we soldiers sing / Hook -- On tree top'd hill / Festing -- When charming Chloe / Lewis Granom -- Mrs. Scott's song in the desart [sic] island / T.A. Arne -- A plea for inconstancy / Michael Arne -- Did you see e'er a shepherd / J. Worgan -- Would you tast [sic] the morning air / Lewis Granom -- The distress'd maid / T.A. Arne.
Summary, etc.
Summary: "This book has been produced under the direction of Hubert J. Foss and Francis Meynell. Eight hundred and seventy-five copies have been printed by the offset lithographic process at the Curwen Press. The music and its accompanying text have been engraved by Lowe & Brydone with punches designed at the Oxford University Press for the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust's Quarto Edition of Tudor Church Music, here used by permission of the Trustees. The title page design has been made and engraved by Stephen Gooden; the miscellaneous eighteenth-century ornaments have been engraved in wood by W.M.R. Quick. This copy is number" - colophon.
Provenance
Book label of Felix Aprahamian on front lining paper.
Copy-specific note
This copy is number 779.
Copy-specific note
Includes original dust-jacket.
Copy-specific note
Loose bookseller catalogue cut-outs for this item inserted at the upper end of the textblock.
Subject
Songs, English To 1800.
Subject
Songs with piano.
Subject
Music 18th century History and criticism.
Subject
London (England) Social life and customs.
Genre/Form
Private press books.
Genre/Form
Numbered limited editions.
Genre/Form
Songbooks.
Added entry--name
Warlock, Peter, 1894 - 1930 editor.
Added entry--name
Gooden, Stephen, 1892 - 1955 illustrator, engraver.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Aprahamian, Felix former owner.
Added entry--name
Lowe & Brydone engraver.
Added entry--name
Nonesuch Press publisher.
Added entry--name
Curwen Press printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B52689