BUNTING, Edward. A General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music of Ireland, Containing a variety of Admired Airs never before published, and also the Compositions of Conolan and Carolan.

Collected from the Harpers in the different Provinces of Ireland and adapted for the Piano Forte. Volume I. [1796]. With a Prefaratory Introduction by Edward Bunting. Belfast: Linen Hall Library, 1996. Folio. [2], v, 36. Stiff printed blue wrappers. A fine copy. The ‘General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music of Ireland’ includes 66 songs, without words; titles in Gaelic & English. The songs were collected at a meeting of itinerant Irish harpers in Belfast, 12 July 1792. Engraved throughout. There are selections of songs by Turlough Carolan, William and Thomas Connellans.