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8 volumes. Large folio. Nineteenth-century half black calf with textured cloth boards with gilt rules to corners and spine, spine in compartments with titling gilt, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. Titles and music engraved; privilege, subscribers list, advertisement, preface, memoirs, remarks, index, proposals typeset. Subscribers include composers Charles Avison, Dr. William Boyce, and John Stanley, as well as city organists, various lords and ladies, etc., for a total of 125. Vol. I 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto dedication, verso blank), 1f. (recto privilege, verso blank), [ii] ("Subscribers to this Work"), 1f. (recto "Advertisemet"[!], verso blank), [vi] ("Preface to the Original Work"), [iv] ("Memoirs of the Life of Benedetto Marcello, N. H.*), [iv] ("Remarks on the Psalms of Marcello"), 130, 1f. (recto "Index," verso "Proposals For Publishing by Subscriptions, The Remainder Of This Work. Conditions") pp. including four blanks. Vol. II 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto dedication, verso blank), 1f. (recto "Preface to the Original Work," verso blank), 131, [i] (blank), 1f. (recto "Index", verso "Proposals .") pp. Vol. III 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto dedication, verso blank), 1f. (recto privilege, verso blank), [1]-4 ("Preface to the Original Work"), 1f. ("Subscribers to this Work"), 144, 1f. (recto "Index," verso "Proposals .") pp. Vol. IV 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto dedication, verso blank), 1f. (recto privilege, verso blank), 1f. ("Subscribers to this Work"), 1f. (recto "Preface to the Original Work," verso blank), 154, 1f. (recto "Index", verso "Proposals .") pp. Vol. V 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto dedication, verso blank), 1f. (recto privilege, verso blank), 1f. ("Subscribers to this Work"), 1f. (recto "Preface to the Original Work," verso blank), [i] (blank), 2-123, [i] (blank), 1f. (recto "Index," verso "Proposals .") pp. Vol. VI 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto dedication, verso blank), 1f. (recto privilege, verso blank), 1f. ("Subscribers to this Work"), 1f. (recto "Preface to the Original Work," verso letter from Johannes Mattheson to Benedetto Marcello), [i] (blank), 127, [i] (blank), 1f. (recto "Index," verso "Proposals .") pp. Vol. VII 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto dedication, verso blank), 1f. (recto privilege, verso blank), 1f. ("Subscribers to this Work"), 1f. (recto "Preface to the Original Work," verso blank), 148, 1f. (recto "Index," verso "Proposals .") pp. Vol. VIII 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto dedication, verso blank), 1f. (recto privilege, verso blank), 1f. ("Subscribers to this Work"), 1f. (recto "Preface to the Original Work," verso blank), 150, 1f. (recto index, verso blank) pp. On final "proposals" page of first volume, printed overpaste of the word "Seven" in first condition "I. That the remaining [Seven] Volumes will be published, one every Year, till the Whole is completed." Bindings worn. Occasional foxing and soiling and dampstaining, mainly to blank margins; some minor browning; occasional small marginal tears. Vol. I: lower portion of spine partially detached; bump to upper edge of typeset material. Vol IV: small portion of lower spine detached. Vol. VIII: large stain to recto of preface leaf; First English edition. Selfridge-Field B601-651, p. 394. BUC p. 647. RISM M426. Marcello's psalms were first published in Venice in 1724-1726. This edition was conceived by Charles Avison, who translated the prefaces and testimonials of the original print and provided additional biographical information about the composer." Selfridge-Field p. 394. John Garth (ca. 1722-ca. 1810) was an English composer and organist from Durham and a friend of Charles Avison, who assisted him in the present publication. "It is not easy to segment the musical continuum of Marcello's life, since he held no regular appointments of a musical nature and the majority of his musical works are undated. This demonstrates how s.
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