G.F. Handel. Messiah An Oratorio, first edition, third issue, c.1767

Handel, George Frideric

Messiah An Oratorio in Score, London: Randall & Abell, [c.1767]

FIRST EDITION, THIRD ISSUE, 3 leaves, 188 and 35 pages, large folio (36.6 x 25.7cm), printed subscribers' list and index, engraved music, some old pencil annotations, eighteenth-century reversed calf, worming to margins, damp-staining to lower outer corner of a few leaves, small paper loss to lower outer corner of pp.93/94, upper cover detached

LITERATURE

Smith no.3; RISM H 718