Beschreibung:

Handel, George Frideric. GOOD COLLECTION OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EDITIONS AND LIBRETTI, TOGETHER WITH AROUND 120 BIOGRAPHIES AND REFERENCE WORKS including 17 libretti, for L'Allegro ed il Penseroso (1743, trimmed), Acis and Galatea (Dublin, 17 December 1742, ESTC, T215844, 2 copies only, Dublin), Saul (1744, not in ESTC), Saul (1750), Theodora (1759), Alexander's Feast (1762), A Description of the Machine for the Fireworks (4to, 1749) and others also including Mainwaring's Memoirs,(London, 1760), Anecdotes of George Frederick Handel (London, 1799, large paper copy; and another copy), Malcolm, A Treatise of Musick, S. Taylor, The Indebtedness of Handel, Hipkins and Gibb, Musical Instruments, W. Barclay Squire, British Museum Catalogue of the King's Music Library, (3 vols.), C.F. Pohl, Mozart und Haydn in London (2 vols., Vienna, 1867), Burney, La Musica Che si Canta Annualmente nelle Ffunzioni della Settimana Santa nella Cappella Pontificia (London, 1771, in original wrappers, containing Allegri's Miserere, [Hirsch, iv 727]), Newton, Messiah. Fifty Expository Discourses, (1786), J. Crosse, An Account of the Grand Musical Festival, Held in September 1823 in the Cathedral Church of York (York, 1825) together with: over 70 volumes of early Handel editions, by Walsh and others, including: Handel's Songs Selected from His Latest Oratorios (instrumental parts), XXIV Overtures, Sonatas and Chamber Airs in parts etc., 17 volumes from Dr. Arnold's Complete Edition (with first editions of Teseo and The Alchemist); Haydn, Die Schöpfung (2 issues: [1] first edition, 1800, first part only, 1-144 pages, ownership inscription of William Gardiner; [2] another issue, c.1800, 303 pages, without subscribers' list); and B. Cooke (An Ode on Handel), Arne (Eight Overtures), Le Duc and Gossec (Trois Sinfonies...Oeuvre I.), Hook (Six Grand Chorusses from Mr Handel's Oratorios, in original wrappers) over 200 volumes in all, various sizes, some items in original wrappers, eighteenth to twentieth centuries