A selection of Hebrew melodies, ancient and modern : with appropriate symphonies & accompaniments / by I. Braham & I. Nathan ; the poetry written expressly for the work by the Right Hon[oura]ble Lord Byron ... 1st number.

Record ID: 
53904
Accession number: 
PMM 96
Creator: 
Nathan, Isaac, 1792-1864.
Title: 
A selection of Hebrew melodies, ancient and modern : with appropriate symphonies & accompaniments / by I. Braham & I. Nathan ; the poetry written expressly for the work by the Right Hon[oura]ble Lord Byron ... 1st number.
Published: 
[London] : Published & sold by I. Nathan ... and to be had at the principal music and booksellers, [1815]
Credit Line: 
Purchased Harper Fund, 1981.
Notes: 

For 1 & 4 voices with piano.
"Braham suggested that he should aid in their arrangement, and sing them in public ... But [his] engagements did not allow him to share actively in the undertaking and in later editions his name was withdrawn", DNB, v. 14, p. 122.
Words printed as text with each song.
"C. Richards, Printer, ... London"--Colophon.
Title p. drawn by Edward Blore, engraved by W. Lowry. Dedication leaf engraved by W. Lowry.
Publisher's advertisement, p. 65.
"Price one guinea."
Signatures: Braham and Nathan--T.p.
Paged continuously, including leaves of engraved music interleaved with letterpress text.
Engraved dedication leaf, to Princess Charlotte.

Provenance: 

From the library of Alicia Ann Hope Johnstone (signature)

Associated names: 

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. Hebrew melodies.
Richards, C., printer.
Blore, Edward, 1787-1879, illustrator.
Lowry, Wilson, 1762-1824, engraver.
Nathan, Isaac, 1792-1864, signer, bookseller.
Braham, John, 1774-1856, signer.
Johnstone, Alicia Ann Hope, former owner.

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Department: 
Music Manuscripts and Printed Music
Music Collection: 
Morgan Collection