Item 24 - Handel & Hasse's Concertos (London: I. Walsh)

Contains: 'Six Concertos for the Harpsichord or Organ composed by Mr Handel'; 'A Second Set of Six Concertos for the Harpsichord or Organ composed by Mr Handel'; 'Six Concertos set for the Harpsichord or Organ compos'd by Signor Giovanni Adolffo Hasse'; 'Six Overtures fitted to the Harpsichord or Spinnet... being proper pieces for the improvement of ye hand' (London: I. Walsh). Hardbound in one volume, containing brief annotations. Two sheets are tipped in at the front, one printed and one MS in an unknown hand (possibly eighteenth-century), of verses of drinking songs. The MS verse begins 'Upbraid me not, capricious fair' and has been suggested to be by the seventeenth-century poet Alexander Brome; Henry Festing Jones set the words to music. The printed verse, 'Punch the Medium of Life', is by the eighteenth-century composer Thomas Arne.