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MUSIC - HANDEL HANDEL (GEORGE FREDERICK) Messiah. A Sacred Oratorio in Score, With All the Additional Alterations Composed in the Year 1741, [full score, edited by Samuel Arnold], PRESENTATION COPY FROM GEORGE III, inscribed on his behalf ("From /The King./ 1788... to Judith Milbanke"), [1788] image 1
MUSIC - HANDEL HANDEL (GEORGE FREDERICK) Messiah. A Sacred Oratorio in Score, With All the Additional Alterations Composed in the Year 1741, [full score, edited by Samuel Arnold], PRESENTATION COPY FROM GEORGE III, inscribed on his behalf ("From /The King./ 1788... to Judith Milbanke"), [1788] image 2
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MUSIC - HANDEL HANDEL (GEORGE FREDERICK)
Messiah. A Sacred Oratorio in Score, With All the Additional Alterations Composed in the Year 1741, [full score, edited by Samuel Arnold], PRESENTATION COPY FROM GEORGE III, inscribed on his behalf ("From /The King./ 1788... to Judith Milbanke"), [1788]

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
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HANDEL (GEORGE FREDERICK) Messiah. A Sacred Oratorio in Score, With All the Additional Alterations Composed in the Year 1741, [full score, edited by Samuel Arnold], PRESENTATION COPY FROM GEORGE III, inscribed on his behalf ("From /The King./ 1788... to Judith Milbanke"), engraved throughout comprising title and score (pp.3-219, with contents on p.219), contemporary red half roan, spine with 3 green gilt lettered labels ('Handel's Works. Vol. 6; Messiah. An Oratorio; Arnold's Edition'), rubbed, folio, [1788]

Footnotes

The recipient is Lady Judith Milbanke (1751-1822), wife of Sir Ralph Milbanke, mother of Annabella, and future mother-in-law of Lord Byron. Handel's Semele, from this same presentation set, was sold in our Oxford rooms on 26 June 2012, lot 300.

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