Cabinet of the Scottish muses

(6) Frontispiece - Muse of Caledonia presenting to Apollo the names of her favourite bards

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(6) Frontispiece - Muse of Caledonia presenting to Apollo the names of her favourite bards
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/90255362

Form / genre:	Images > Pictures > Illustrations > Frontispieces
Subject / content:	Engravings (prints) Supernatural beings Gods (deities) Lyres Robes (main garments)
Person / organisation:	Apollo (Greek deity) [Depicted] Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 [Subject of text] Ramsay, Allan, 1686-1758 [Subject of text]
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Cabinet of the Scottish muses
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Description	Selected from the works of the most esteemed bards of Caledonia. Edinburgh : Printed by and for Oliver & Boyd, 1808.
Shelfmark	Glen.64
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record
Attribution and copyright:	Out of copyright - The physical item used to create this digital version is out of copyright

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events:	1808 [Date printed]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Edinburgh > Edinburgh (inhabited place) [Place published]
Subject / content:	Poems Scottish
Person / organisation:	Oliver and Boyd (Edinburgh, Scotland) [Printer]
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Glen Collection of printed music
Description	Scottish songs and music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including music for the Highland bagpipe. These are selected items from the collection of John Glen (1833 to 1904). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises, and other books on the subject.

Special collections of printed music
Description	The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi.