The Celebrated Water Musick In Score Composed in the Year 1716. HWV 348 . Bound with The Musick for the Royal Fireworks Performed in the Year 1749. HWV 351 . Full scores

by George Frideric Handel

$1,000 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Large folio. Half black cloth with marbled boards, titling gilt to spine. 1f. recto title, verso blank , 3-53, i blank pp. Engraved throughout.Early small label of London binder to upper outer corner of front pastedown, G. Crouch Bookbinder 1, Crown Court, Tudor St. Blackfriars Bridge. With a ? 19th century newspaper article announcing a concert performance laid down to front pastedown incorporating an engraving of a highly ornamented barge on the Thames

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