A History of Irish Music. Preface by the Author.  Dublin: Browne & Nolan, 1913. Third Edition.  Blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt.  Small ex library ink stamp to the title page. A very good copy of the scarce first edition.

Presentation copy, Inscribed by the Author on the front free endpaper.

Includes chapters on Ancient Irish Music, Ancient Irish Musical Instruments, Ancient Irish Scales, Anglo-Irish Music, O’Carolan, The Jacobite Period, Irish Pipers in the Eighteenth Century, Harp and much more.

William Henry Grattan Flood was a noted Irish author, composer, musicologist, and historian. As well as writing a ‘A History of Enniscorthy and Ferns’ (1898) Flood also published ‘Story of the Bagpipe’ (1911) and ‘John Field of Dublin: Inventor of the Nocturne’ a booklet in 1920.