The Most Celebrated Songs In The Oratorio Calld Queen Esther To Which Is Prefixt The Overture In

by George Frideric Handel

$5,500 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

First edition

Folio. Modern half light brown morocco with marbled boards, raised bands on spine with black leather label gilt and titling gilt. 1f. recto title, verso table , i blank , 161-167, 9-30 pp. some pagination deriving from earlier editions . Engraved throughout. First Edition, fourth issue. Smith p. 104, no. 4: The pagination 161-167 is from 'Overtures in Score' 1740 and takes the place of the original pagination in 2-8 in the earlier editions. BUC p 434. RISM H537 and HH537.

• Binding: Leather

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