[Collection of 11 Scottish songs lacking title and imprint]

Philadelphia: s.n., 1840. Sheet_music. Good. [16] p.: music; 32 cm. Lacking wrapper. Removed from a volume of sheet music published from 1825 to 1850 with former owner's name on the front: "E. C. K. Seymour." These are not individual pieces of sheet music, but 11 songs published together. Contents: "My Boy Tammy," A Scotch Ballad [words by Hector MacNeill; arranged by John S. Macgregor] -- Oh, My Love's Bonny: A Celebrated Scotch Ballad; words by J. Finlayson; music by J. M. Muller -- There's No Land Like Scotland: A Ballad; composed by Edward J. Loder -- My Own One: Song; adapted to a Favourite Scotch Air, by David Lee -- My Bonnie Blue Eyed Lassie, O!: Scottish Ballad composed by Ch. Wodarch -- Adieu, Adieu, My Ain Sweet Land: The Words and Air by J. R. Mitchell; the symphony and accompaniment by J. Watson -- The Lass o' Gowrie, sung by Mr. Wilson -- Gentle Mary: Song; words by G. H. Barbour; music by Wm. C. Peters -- My Love is oe'r the Sea, Send Him Hame, an admired ballad, from the Melodies of the Mountains; the music composed by Alexander Lee -- Afton Water: Song; the words by Robert Burns; the music composed by Richard Guin -- Jamie's Return: Continuation of Auld Robin Gray; written and composed by George Bennett. The 10th song, Afton Water, has music by Richard Guin, described as "A Pupil of the Pennsylvania Institute for Instructing the Blind." The Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind (now Overbrook School for the Blind) was established in Philadelphia in 1832 by Julius Reinhold Friedlander, a German teacher of blind and visually impaired children. This suggests that the collection was published in Philadelphia around 1840. Another song by Guin was published in 1842 by Godey and McMichael in The Amateur's Musical Library. Very scarce. In Good Condition: lacking wrapper; first leaf and last are detached but present; light foxing throughout; otherwise, clean and solid.