Music - ?Unrecorded, Cox (John), The Lincolnshire Harmony [....

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£420

Music - ?Unrecorded, Cox (John), The Lincolnshire Harmony [...], Engrav'd & Printed by the Author at Langtoft, near Bourn (sic), Lincolnshire, [n.d., c. 1770], only 3pp of copper-printing, the rest ?supplied in contemporary ink MS with contents and musical notation: [ii], 126ff, contemporary calf over boards, title-page recto with contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscription: William Cragg, His Book, January, 27, 1788/Thurlby, oblong 4to, (1); Provincial Leicestershire Imprint, The Second Book of the Voice of Melody, Being a Collection of the Most Curious Psalm-Tunes Extant, in Four Parts; with Variety of Hymns and Anthems [...], second edition, Waltham, Leicestershire: Collected, Printed, and Sold by William East, Grantham: Mr Whiteman Stationer, 1750, copperplate-printed, engraved title-page, incomplete but complimented and bound with further scores in contemporaneous ink manuscript, contemporary panelled calf (faults and losses), slightly later rebacked with a tacked-on strip, the upper-cover blocked in gilt: In Butler (John Butler repeated in MS on the title-page), oblong 4to, (1); Handel (George Frideric), Redemption: A Sacred Oratorio [...], London: Printed for Rt. Birchall at his Musical Circulating Library, [n.d., 1814], defective title-page, prelims and the first few pages, some marginal repairs in places throughout the score, contemporary calf (faults), folio, (1); a Regency and later sammelband of sheet music, gilt-tooled leather over marbled boards, folio, (1); etc., [8]

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The back book is Handel’s Messiah. There’s no folk type music; all religious (hymns, psalms, and oratorios).