G.F. Handel. Early edition of the Op.2 sonatas, c.1732-1733

Handel, George Frideric

VI Sonates à deux Violons, deux haubois ou deux Flutes traversières & Basse Continue...Second Ouvrage, London: J. Walsh, [c.1732-1733]

all 3 parts, 25, 19 and 22 pages, 4to (31.5 x 22.2cm), engraved throughout, plate number 408, some modern pencil annotations, Dolmetsch Library and pencil shelfmark ("II D 27, 1 [...2...3]") to verso of titles, modern calf-backed boards, gatherings strengthened

The Op.2 sonatas were first published around 1730 by Walsh in London, under the false imprint of Roger, Amsterdam.

LITERATURE:

Smith no.3; TNG, x, p.801; RISM H 1347