- Creator:
Jones, Edward, 1752-1824
- The bardic museum : of primitive British literature, and other admirable rarities : forming the second volume of the Musical, poetical, and historical relicks of the Welsh bards and druids ... : containing, the bardic triads, historic odes, eulogies, songs, elegies, memorials of the tombs of the warriors, of King Arthur and his knights, regalias, the wonders of Wales, et caetera : with English translations and historic illustrations : likewise, the ancient war-tunes of the bards ... to these national melodies are added new basses, with variations ... / by Edward Jones ...
- Published / Created:
London : Printed by A. Strahan, for the Author, 1802.
- xx, 112 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
- Rare Books and Manuscripts
M1742.A2 J772 1802+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:865776
- Music (printed)
- Notes:
"Jones had prepared a third volume, a portion only of which was published at his death, the remainder being issued subsequently."-- Cf. New Grove.
Frontispiece engraving by Thomas Rowlandson; after Julius Ibbetson and John Raphael Smith.
New Grove v. iv, p. 658
MUSRA: Bound with the author's Musical, and poetical relicks, 3d ed. London, 1811.
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary quarter roan and marbled boards. Inscribed: Charlotte Leeds.
- Exhibition History:
Art in Focus : Wales (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-04-04 - 2014-08-10)
- Subject Terms:
- Bards and bardism. | Welsh poetry. | Music -- Wales. | Strahan, A. -- Printer. | Leeds, Charlotte -- Autograph .
- Form/Genre:
- Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1802.
- Contributors:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827, engraver. | Ibbetson, Julius, 1759–1817, ill. | Smith, John Raphael, 1752–1812, ill.