Home! Sweet Home! Sung by Miss M. Tree in Clari or The Maid of Milan at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, also by Miss Stephens at the Musical Festivals. The Poetry by John Howard Payne Esqr. ... Price 1/6. [For voice and piano]

London: Goulding & D'Almaine, 20, Soho Square, & to be had at 7, Westmorland Strt. Dublin, 1823. Folio. Plain wrappers. 3, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved.

With monogrammatic handstamp of the composer "HBR" to title and Goulding & Co.'s handstamp to p. 3; several notes added in pencil to final measures of p. 3.

Worn, soiled, and browned; minor paper repairs to blank margins of first leaf; a few small tears to outer margin of second leaf. First Edition, later issue (without "Potter" to imprint). Fuld p. 274. OCLC 868835890.

"In his day [Bishop] enjoyed a commanding reputation as the guardian of the best traditions of English song, and for a time he kept English opera alive almost single-handed. ... Eclipsing all else in popularity is the ballad Home, Sweet Home." Nicholas Temperley and Bruce Carr in Grove Music Online.