G.F. Handel. Handel's Songs Selected from His Oratorios, 3 vocal score vols. with instrumental parts in 4 vols., c.1755

Handel, George Frideric

Songs selected from the oratorios

Handel's Songs Selected from His Oratorios. For the Harpsichord, Voice, Hoboy, or German Flute...Vol. I [...II ['I' altered to 'II' in manuscript]...III ['I' altered to 'II' in manuscript]] [vocal scores] [RISM H 1075], London: Walsh, [c.1755]

Smith no.17, three oblong folio volumes containing 240 songs, 1-170, 172-332, 334-498 pages (c.22 x 31cm), engraved throughout, stamp of Oxford and Cambridge Musical Club to title-pages, bookplate of Philip Joseph Salomons to front pastedowns, green morocco label gilt to upper covers ("Philip Joseph Salomons"), nineteenth-century green half calf, some covers detached

together with the separately issued instrumental parts in four volumes: 

Handel's Songs Selected from His Latest Oratorios for Concerts: For Violins &c. in Six Parts, London: Walsh, no date

four volumes, 171 (violino primo), 159 (violino secondo), 62 (viola), 181 (basso) pages, folio (30.2 x 22.5cm), other instrumental parts distributed throughout the four volumes, the majority still folded and attached, presumably as issued, engraved throughout, stamp of Oxford and Cambridge Musical Club to title-pages, bookplate of Philip Joseph Salomons to front pastedowns, green morocco label gilt to upper covers ("Philip Joseph Salomons"), bindings worn, two upper covers detached

The owner of these scores and parts, Philip Joseph Salomons (1797-1866) was a gifted amateur double bass player (and a pupil of Dragonetti). Rossini composed his Duetto for cello and double bass for Salomons during his trip to London in 1824.