[Rarebooks] For Sale: THE CONVIVIAL SONGSTER, 1782

[Norman Kane]

THE CONVIVIAL SONGSTER, BEING A SELECT COLLECTION OF THE BEST SONGS 
IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE; HUMOUROUS SATIRICAL BACHANALIAN, &c. &c. &c. 
WITH THE MUSIC PREFIXED TO EACH SONG.
London: John Fielding, (fronts. dated 1782.)    First edition.  Old 
worn leather, approx. 7 X 4 inches, collates in 6's; [2], xii, 371 
pages.   Frontispiece.  Outer edge of fronts. & title leaf chipped 
(no loss).  ("Would you have a young virgin of 15 years? / You must 
tickle her fancy with sweets and dears; / ever toying and playing, 
and sweetly, sweetly, sing a love sonnet and charm her ears. / 
Wittily, prettily, talk her down; / chase her and praise her, if fair 
or brown; / soothe her and smooth her, and teaze her and please her; 
/ and touch but her smicket*, and all's your own." )  $225.00

*smicket: under-garment

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