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Scottish songs, the others are a mixed collection. The eighteenth edition
appeared in 1792. A presumably unauthorized edition, two volumes in one, has
the following title : ' The Tea-Table Miscellany ; or Allan Ramsay's Collection
of Scots Songs. London : Printed by J. Watson over against Hungerford
Market in the Strand, 1730.' i8mo. pp. 230. In the preface it is styled the
' fifth edition.'
The Hive, a Collection of the most Celebrated Songs. London :
Printed for J. Walthoe, Jun., 1724. i6mo. 4 vols. The last in 1732.
Contains a criticism on Song Writing by ' Namby-pamby ' Philips.
' The Vocal Miscellany, a collection of above four hundred celebrated songs ;
many of which were never before printed. With the names of tlie tunes
prefixed to each song. The third edition corrected with additions. Dublin :
Printed by W. Rhames in Capel Street . . . 1738.' i6mo. pp. xx and 340.
The first edition, London, 1733.
' The Lark : containing a collection of above Four hundred and seventy
celebrated English and Scotch Songs none of which are contained in the other
collections of the same size called The Syren and The Nightingale. With
a curious and copioUs alphabetical glossary for explaining the Scotch words.
London: printed for John Osbom . . . 1740.' i8mo. pp. 416.
' The Charmer, a choice collection of Songs, Scots and English. Edinburgh :
Printed for J. Yair . . . 1749. i2mo.' The second volume in 1751. The
second edition in 1752 ; the third in 1765 is subscribed ' Edinburgh : Printed
for M. Yair, bookseller.'
' Orpheus : a collection of One thousand nine hundred and seventy- four of the
most celebrated English and Scotch songs. With a glossary explaining the
Scotch words. In three volumes. London : Printed for C. Hitch and J.
Osborn . . . 1749. i6mo.' This is a collection of three volumes under the titles
— The LinHet, The Thrush, and The Robin, published the same year.
Collection of Loyal Songs, Poems, &c. London, 1750. Privately
printed.
Herd's MS., now in the British Museum, contains songs, ballads, and
remnants ; it is the foundation of Herd's Collections of Songs published in
1769 and 1776. Many unpublished pieces are referred to in the Notes.
Sir Walter Scott and other ballad editors since his time have examined it and
drawn from it.
' A Collection of Songs. Edinburgh : Printed by A. Donaldson and J. Reid.
1762.' i2mo.
A choice Collection of Scotch and English Songs, taken from the
Amyrillis, Phoenix, &c. . . . Glasgow, 1764. i2mo.
The Blackbird : a choice collection of the most celebrated songs . . . , by
William Hunter, Philo-Architechtonicae. Edinburgh, 1764. i6mo.
The Lark : being a select collection of the most celebrated and newest songs,
Scots and English. Edinburgh: W. Gordon, 1765. Vol. i. i2mo. Only one
volume published.
' The Masque : a new and select collection of the best English, Scotch, and
Irish Songs . . . with a great number of valuable originals. ... A new edition
with great additions. London : printed for Richardson & Urquhart under the
Royal Exchange,' n. d. i2mo. The first edition in 1761, another in 1768.
That described above is a few years later.
' Keliques of Ancient English Poetry : consisting of old Heroic Ballads,