Music in Scottish Castles and Country Houses

Music in Scottish Castles and Country Houses
Catalogued and surveyed by Dr Roger B. Williams MBE
Hon. Music Advisor to NTS


Master Index – Single Item Selection

BUC : The British Union-Catalogue of Early Music
CPM : Catalogue of Printed Music in the British Library to 1980

Monday 6th October 2025

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Leith Hall LHM 01-4/1  RBW 16

A | Select Collection of | Original Scottish Airs | for the Voice, | With Introductory & Concluding Symphonies | & Accompaniments for the | Piano Forte, Violin & Violoncello | By | Pleyel Kozeluch & Haydn | With | Select and Characteristic Verses both Scottish and English | adapted to the Airs including upwards of | One Hundred New Songs by | Burns [Vol. 1 - ed. George Thomson]
   London - Printed & Sold by J. Preston, 97 Strand  ::  Sold also by G. Thomson, the Editor & Proprietor, Edinburgh

pp.1-50 + front & end matter  Plate no. First pub. 1793-7 (BUC). This is a later ed. of th  
Thomson' on cover. Sig. 'A Gemmell' in ink on facing page inside cover. Thompson [sic] in pencil on verso of Picture: The Birks of Invermay. Sig. Go. Thomson at foot of t.p.. Indecipherable sig.top of page, with date 1810.

Also: [front;] Advertisement (4 pp.) dated York-Place, Edinburgh, September 1803  [end:] 'Index to the Airs. And Index to the Poetry in the First Volume'

Short Title  > A select collection of original Scottish airs, vol. 1
Cmp/Arr  > Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831) (arr.)   |   Leopold Kozeluch (1747-1818) (arr.)   |   Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) (arr.)
Auth/Ed  > Burns, Robert (1759-1796)   |   Thomson, George (1757-1851) (ed.)
Pr/Pub/Bks  > George Thomson   |   J(ohn) Preston
Former Owner  > A Gemmell   |   Geo. Thomson