Irish Melodies (with an appendix, containing the original advertisements and the prefatory letter on music)

Thomas Moore

Edité par Printed for J. Power and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, And Brown, 34, Strand and Paternoster-Row, 1822

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Stated Third Edition. Published in MDCCCXXII. The first edition was published in 1821. Dedication to the Marchioness Dowager Of Donegal. Contents are sectioned by Numbers, First Number through to the Eighth Number, with 12 poems in each section. These are followed by an Appendix, the Index and a five-page section titled Musical Works by Thomas Moore, which brings us through to the last page, 251. This book is in really nice condition and is quite pleasing to the eye. The bookbinder was 'John Bumpus 350, Oxford St' . Take a look at the photos of the covers. It's a half-binding, leather spine and corners. The gilt title is on the second band from the top, the year published at the very bottom of the spine. The gilt is quite bright. The top page edge is also gilt. The edges are in very good shape. The bottom ones have a bit of light rubbing just off the corners. All four corners have a little bit of rub-through and scuffing. I don't know whether the original spine was brown or green. You can see that some of the green at the corners and just adjacent to the spine has changed to brown. I don't see any soiling on the covers. The marbled design is repeated on the inside covers and end papers. I've provided a photograph of the front inside cover and first front end paper. Notice the purple area on the end paper. I like it, but it doesn't fit the pattern, so it may be a stain. The book is square and very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout. The covers are tightly bound. There are no binding issues. The interior of the book is in very good condition. I would describe the foxing as no greater than 'light'. I turned over every page in the book. I would say that on average there is one small spot of foxing per page, which means that there are a good number of pages that have none at all, many that have one or two spots, and some others that have a handful or so. Otherwise, the pages are very clean and pretty much free of creasing. I found a total of three pages with a very tiny loss off their outer edge, far from the print. And I found one page with a very tiny loss at its bottom corner, again very far away from the print. There are no markings on any of the pages. The only writing is an old signature on the second front end paper (Frank W. Hume, 1897). There are no attachments of any kind in the book. 'Thomas Moore (1779-1852) was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer". As Lord Byron's named literary executor, along with John Murray, Moore was responsible for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death. In the early years of his career, Moore's work was largely generic and had he died at this point he would likely not have been considered an Irish poet. From 1806 to 1807 Moore dramatically changed his style of writing and focus. Following a request by the publishers James and William Power, he wrote lyrics to a series of Irish tunes in the manner of Haydn's settings of British folksongs, with Sir John Andrew Stevenson as arranger of the music. They were originally published in ten volumes and a supplement between 1808 and 1834, the musical arrangements of the last volumes after Stevenson's death (1833) being done by Henry Bishop. Moore became best known for these Irish Melodies, which were enormously popular, containing songs such as "The Minstrel Boy", "The Last Rose of Summer", "Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms" and "Oft in the Stilly Night". Moore is often considered Ireland's national bard and is to Ireland what Robert Burns is to Scotland. Many composers have set his poems to music, including Gaspare Spontini, Robert Schumann, Hector Berlioz, Charles Ives, William Bolcom, Lori Laitman, Benjamin Britten and Henri Duparc. Many songs of Thomas Moore are cited in works of James Joyce, for example "Silent, O Moyle" in Two Gallants (Dubliners) and "The Last Rose of Summer".

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• Titre: Irish Melodies (with an appendix, containing the original advertisements and the prefatory letter on music)
• Éditeur: Printed for J. Power and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, And Brown, 34, Strand and Paternoster-Row
• Date de parution: 1822
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Engravings from the designs of W. H. Brooke
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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  • Ireland
  • Antiquarian