Handel, George Frideric.

1) Faramondo an Opera as it is Perform'd at the King's Theatre [score], London: Walsh, [1738], first edition, [6], 1-88 pages, folio (c.31.3 x 23.3cm), engraved throughout, table, subscribers' list, without advertisement leaf, plate number 633, eighteenth-century manuscript ownership inscription to free front endpaper ("Richard Twining"),  marbled boards, rebacked, lacking pp.89-91, trimmed to plate in a few places, very slightly affecting the text on p.56 



2) The Most Celebrated Songs in the Opera of Scipio [Scipione], [score], Sold at the Musick Shops, [c.1726], [under Smith no.4], early edition, 18 leaves, folio (34 x 22cm), only 5 and 6 foliated, mostly printed on one side only, early blue wrappers, a few small tears to margins, including to title, creasing to title

Smith 1 (Faramondo); 4 (Scipione)

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The edition of the Songs from Scipio, containing nine songs and eighteen leaves, is, according to Smith, a unique copy.