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Lot 58
  • 58

Handel, George Frideric.

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Description

  • Collection of Oratorios in early Walsh editions.
1) L'allegro, il penseroso, ed il moderato. [1741], modern boards, green morocco gilt spine, [Smith, no.5], loosely inserted manuscript contents
2) Joseph and his brethren. [1747], [Smith, no. 2]
3) Hercules. [1745], [Smith, no. 2]
4) Deborah. [c. 1752], [Smith, no. 6], small corner tear with slight loss to title-page, title-page soiled, 3 works in one volume, modern cloth backed boards
5) Belshazzar. [1745], modern boards, [Smith, no. 2]
6) Samson. [c. 1763], nineteenth-century quarter calf, some browning, [apparently a slight variant of Smith, no. 6, with "finis" on p.172, not omitted as called for], offprint of William C. Smith's 1938 aticle for the Musical Times, "'Samson' the earliest editions and Handel's use of the dead march" loosely inserted



together 6 works in 4 volumes, folio, all by John Walsh

Condition

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