IDENTIFIERS
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id:	253496
accession number:	MU.504

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Monday 12 October 2020
updated:	Thursday 17 July 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Select melodies of Scotland.
For 1-2 voices and piano.
For the most part, the songs are taken from the various folio volumes of Thomson's 'A selection collection of original Scottish/Welsh/Irish airs'.
Letterpress colophon: Edinburgh : "Printed by John Moir for the proprietor G. Thomson, Royal Exchange, Edinburgh, 1822."
Title page signed by the proprietor "G. Thomson".
Engraved music interleaved with letterpress song texts with duplicate numbering (p. 1-50); actually there are 62 (2, 11, 12, 15, 22, 27 32, 39-41, 44, 49 are used twice) pages of engraved music and 36 ([1-2], 11, 12, 15, 22, 27, 32, 39-41, 44 omitted) pages of printed text (the text verses are included on the engraved music plates).
Price 12/-.
Songs, Scots. Songs, English Scotland. Songs, English Ireland. Songs, English Wales. Songs with piano. Vocal duets with piano.
object type: The plates for songs no. 1, 9, 38 and 39 are marked in pencil "Proof".
title:	The select melodies of Scotland : interspersed with those of Ireland and Wales, united to the songs of Robt. Burns, Sir Walter Scott Bart. and other distinguished poets. with symphonies & accompaniments for the piano forte by Pleyel, Kozeluch, Haydn, & Beethoven ; the whole composed for & collected by George Thomson, F.A.S.E. in five volumes. Vol. 5 /

NOTES
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type: history note
value: MU.504 received "Bound by F. Bedford" in full calf with gilt line borders and gilt tooled spine with red leather labels.UkCU-FWM


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/253496





CATEGORIES
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category: printed music

DATING
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DIMENSIONS
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value: 1 score ([2], 50, 3-48, [2] pages) ;26 cm; 1 score ([2], 50, 3-48, [2] pages) ;26 cm;