Autograph letter signed to Joseph Cooper Walker at the Treasury Chambers in Dublin.
London: 20 December 1785. 2 pp., folded sheet (345 x 230 mm), with integral address sheet. Condition : silked, fore-edge of address sheet renewed, fore-edge of text closely trimmed, just touching three letters. Provenance : A. Edward Newton, Parke-Bernet, 17 April 1941, lot 216; Eric Sexton, F.S.A., Christie's New York, 22 May 1981, lot 41, $2200, C.A. Stonehill. A letter recommending certain texts on Scottish music and promoting Boswell's second edition of his Journal , recently published: "I am happy to find that you are so much pleased with my Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides [published fall, 1785] . After all the inquiry which I have made concerning Ancient Scottish Musick, I have only obtained references to several publications on that subject, which I now communicate [Boswell lists five titles] … P.S. A second edition of my Journal will appear in a day or two. It is consi: derably improved by a correction of many typographical errors and other inaccuracies, by a table of contents, several additional notes, and an Appendix. If therefore the Irish Booksellers should have occasion to reprint my Book it will be obliging if you will suggest that the reprint should be made from my second and more perfect edition." Tinker II, no. 233.
Autograph letter signed to Joseph Cooper Walker at the Treasury Chambers in Dublin.
London: 20 December 1785. 2 pp., folded sheet (345 x 230 mm), with integral address sheet. Condition : silked, fore-edge of address sheet renewed, fore-edge of text closely trimmed, just touching three letters. Provenance : A. Edward Newton, Parke-Bernet, 17 April 1941, lot 216; Eric Sexton, F.S.A., Christie's New York, 22 May 1981, lot 41, $2200, C.A. Stonehill. A letter recommending certain texts on Scottish music and promoting Boswell's second edition of his Journal , recently published: "I am happy to find that you are so much pleased with my Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides [published fall, 1785] . After all the inquiry which I have made concerning Ancient Scottish Musick, I have only obtained references to several publications on that subject, which I now communicate [Boswell lists five titles] … P.S. A second edition of my Journal will appear in a day or two. It is consi: derably improved by a correction of many typographical errors and other inaccuracies, by a table of contents, several additional notes, and an Appendix. If therefore the Irish Booksellers should have occasion to reprint my Book it will be obliging if you will suggest that the reprint should be made from my second and more perfect edition." Tinker II, no. 233.
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