MUSIC. - William KITCHINER. The Loyal and National Songs of England, for One, Two, and Three Voices, Selected from Original Manuscripts and Early Printed Copies. London: Hurst, Robinson andpany, 1823. Folio (376 x 250mm.) Title, lithographic dedication leaf in colour. (Occasional browning, faint spotting, damp-staining to blanks.) Contemporary boards, later paper label to spine, title in manuscript to upper cover (rebacked with cloth tape, rubbing to extremities, minor marks). Provenance: W. Bennett (name inscribed to on dedication leaf). Note: in the introduction Kitchiner makes the point that 'if English ballads are not so highly esteemed as the Scotch, - Irish, - and Welsh, it can only be, because their beauties…are not so much known'.Buyer’s (including @ ) of the price. Lots purchased online via will attract an additional of (including @ ) of the price.