Author: HANDEL (George Frderic):
Title: The Beauties of Handel In Three Volumes. Consisting of upwards of One Hundred & fifty of his most favorite Songs, Duetts & Trios. Selected from the Various Works of this great Master, arranged with a separate Accompaniment for the Piano Forte, and figured from the m. S. Scores of the Author by Jos. Corfe.
Description: London: Printed & Sold by Preston..., [1815.] 3 volumes. Oblong folio, 343 x 244 mms., pp. [vi], 134; [iv], 127 [128 blank]; [iv], 143 [144 blank], engraved portrait of Handel as frontispiece in volume 2, engraved throughout, contemporary hard-grain green morocco, marbled boards; spines a little defective, with top and base panels chipped or missing. With the inscription "Agnes Maria Smith/ from her loving Husban Feb. 15 1855." The singer and organist Joseph Corfe (1740 - 1820) made several arrangements of songs and chamber music, which were great drawing-room favourites in the 19th century. Probably his most important work was not his compositions or arrangements, but two books, A Treatise on Singing (1799) and his manual Thorough Bass Simplified (1805).

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