Dec 04, 2006 - Sale 2096

Sale 2096 - Lot 157

Price Realized: $ 1,020
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(MUSIC.) The British Musical Miscellany; or, The Delightful Grove: Being a Collection of Celebrated English, and Scotch songs, by the best Masters. Set for the Violin, German Flute, the Common Flute, and Harpsicord. Text and music entirely engraved throughout. [4], iv, 145, [1]; [2], iv, 145, [1]; [2], iv, 144; [2], iv, 145, [1]; [2], 145, [1]; [2], iv, 144, including frontispiece in Volume 1 only. 6 volumes in 3. 4to, black straight-grain morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, spines slightly faded to brown; repaired paper cracks through plate marks on a few leaves in Volumes 4 and 6, blank outer margin of leaf containing pages 121-22 in Volume 6 restored. Smith & Humphries 259-264 (calling for frontispiece in each volume). London: J. Walsh, [1734-37]