John Campbell and Archibald Campbell, The Kilberry Book of Ceol Meadhonach ([Glasgow: Peter Henderson, 1908 or 1909]).
Rare first edition of the book where the Campbell brothers sought to define a class of “middle music,” chiefly comprising Gaelic song airs. In A Bibliography of Bagpipe Music (1980), Roderick Cannon offers the following comment (p. 52): “Apart from its musical value (though long out of print it is still greatly prized by pipers), the Kilberry Book [of Ceol Meadhonach] has the great virtue from the historian’s point of view of providing notes on the origin of many of the tunes, and of specifying to what extent the airs have had to be modified to suit the limitations of the pipe chanter.”
36 pages comprising: preliminaries (unnumbered); tunes (1-21); notes (unnumbered). Half leather black binding. Some wear on spine and corners; front hinge is loose; otherwise good condition.
