Beschreibung:

The Agreeable Musical Choice, an Entire New Collection of English Songs, with the Duet in Harlequin Sorceror..., [1753], engraved title and privilege, 21 pages of engraved music, numbered 2-22, title with minor loss to upper corner and 'Numb. V' mostly erased, bound with Vocal Melody book IV. A Favourite Collection of English Songs sung at the Publick Gardens..., [1752], engraved title and privilege, 19 pages of engraved music, numbered 22-40, the lower half of pages 23/24 excised, bound with Vocal Melody book III. A Favourite Collection of Songs and Dialogues sung at Marybon-Gardens..., [1751], engraved title and privilege, 20 pages of engraved music, numbered 2-21, bound with Vocal Melody book II. An Entire New Collection of English Songs and a Cantata, [1750], combined with Vocal Melody [book I], [1749], engraved title and privilege for book II only (lacking both to book I), 40 pages of engraved music, numbered 1-42 (lacking pages 9/10), one leaf with some splitting along fore-edge plate line, bound with Arne (Michael) , The Flow'ret. A New Collection of English Songs sung at the Publick Gardens. Compos'd by Master Arne, [1750], engraved title, 10 pages of engraved music, numbered 2-11, one leaf splitting along gutter plate line, bound with two further collections of similar songs by unidentified composer(s), no titles present, comprising 28 pages of engraved music, numbered 1-14, 2-15, all collections printed for I. Walsh, minor marks and soiling throughout, mainly to upper corners, upper edges a trifle frayed in places, front endpapers with early ink ownership name, plus later ink inscription 'Julian Ottoline Morrell, Garsington Manor Oxford..., from Bob & Kyrle May 18 1927', near contemporary quarter roan, rubbed and worn, spine ends with some loss, mainly at tail, front cover partly detached, folio, together with Music Manuscript , 95 pages, circa 1849, mostly unnumbered, transcriptions of mainly piano and vocal pieces by composers including Meyerbeer, Schubert, Bishop, Donizetti, and others, frequent light strike-through from ink, front free endpaper with ink ownership inscription 'Augusta Mary Browne... 1849', gutta percha perished, and contents loose in contemporary quarter roan, rubbed and extremities worn, 4to, plus one other volume of printed music Smith & Humphries 91-95 (Thomas Arne) & 62 (Michael Arne). (3)