[Royalty & Music] Handel, George Frederic. (1685-1759). MESSIAH: A Sacred Oratorio In Score: With all the Additional Alterations Composed in the Year 1741. - PRESENTATION COPY FROM KING GEORGE III to the future mother-in-law of Lord Byron. . London: [Arnold's edition]. [1787]. Full score. Large folio. 4 parts in 1 volume (Nos. 9 to XII). p. 3-219. Engraved throughout comprising title and score, contemporary red half roan, spine with 3 green gilt lettered labels ('Handel's Works. Vol. 6; Messiah. An Oratorio; Arnold's Edition'), rubbed. Hirsch M.1395. Smith 13, p. 129.
A PRESENTATION COPY FROM GEORGE III, inscribed on his behalf "From /The King./ 1788... to Judith Milbanke." The recipient is Lady Judith Milbanke (1751-1822), wife of Sir Ralph Milbanke, mother of Annabella, and future mother-in-law of Lord Byron.
Samuel Arnold (1740-1802) began editing Handel's oratorios in the 1780s for performances and planned to produce, with Thomas Linley the elder, a complete edition. Some 180 publications, including 40 oratorios, were issued as part of a series he produced between 1787 and 1797.
A PRESENTATION COPY FROM GEORGE III, inscribed on his behalf "From /The King./ 1788... to Judith Milbanke." The recipient is Lady Judith Milbanke (1751-1822), wife of Sir Ralph Milbanke, mother of Annabella, and future mother-in-law of Lord Byron.
Samuel Arnold (1740-1802) began editing Handel's oratorios in the 1780s for performances and planned to produce, with Thomas Linley the elder, a complete edition. Some 180 publications, including 40 oratorios, were issued as part of a series he produced between 1787 and 1797.
[Royalty & Music] Handel, George Frederic. (1685-1759). MESSIAH: A Sacred Oratorio In Score: With all the Additional Alterations Composed in the Year 1741. - PRESENTATION COPY FROM KING GEORGE III to the future mother-in-law of Lord Byron. . London: [Arnold's edition]. [1787]. Full score. Large folio. 4 parts in 1 volume (Nos. 9 to XII). p. 3-219. Engraved throughout comprising title and score, contemporary red half roan, spine with 3 green gilt lettered labels ('Handel's Works. Vol. 6; Messiah. An Oratorio; Arnold's Edition'), rubbed. Hirsch M.1395. Smith 13, p. 129.
A PRESENTATION COPY FROM GEORGE III, inscribed on his behalf "From /The King./ 1788... to Judith Milbanke." The recipient is Lady Judith Milbanke (1751-1822), wife of Sir Ralph Milbanke, mother of Annabella, and future mother-in-law of Lord Byron.
Samuel Arnold (1740-1802) began editing Handel's oratorios in the 1780s for performances and planned to produce, with Thomas Linley the elder, a complete edition. Some 180 publications, including 40 oratorios, were issued as part of a series he produced between 1787 and 1797.
A PRESENTATION COPY FROM GEORGE III, inscribed on his behalf "From /The King./ 1788... to Judith Milbanke." The recipient is Lady Judith Milbanke (1751-1822), wife of Sir Ralph Milbanke, mother of Annabella, and future mother-in-law of Lord Byron.
Samuel Arnold (1740-1802) began editing Handel's oratorios in the 1780s for performances and planned to produce, with Thomas Linley the elder, a complete edition. Some 180 publications, including 40 oratorios, were issued as part of a series he produced between 1787 and 1797.