A collection of catches, canons, glees, duets &c : selected from the works of the most eminent composers antient and modern. Vol. 1[-4].

Format:

Musical score

Contributor:

Clementi & Co., publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Part songs--Great Britain--19th century.

Part songs.

Glees, catches, rounds, etc.

Part songs, English.

Penn Provenance:

Kent, S. S. (label) (Kislak Center copy)

Cambridge University Musical Club (bookplate) (stamp) (Kislak Center copy)

Nixon, J. E. (John Edwin) (former owner) (stamp) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

4 scores ; 18 x 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by Muzio Clementi & Co., No. 26 Cheapside, ..., [not before 1823]

Notes:

Terminus post quem for publication date from watermark "1823" on some leaves of both volumes.

"Pr. [blank]"--Title leaf.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy imperfect: volumes 3 and 4 only; title leaf of volume 3 wanting with a volume 1 title leaf ("I" corrected in manuscript to "III") inserted in its place; title leaf of volume 4 wanting.

Kislak Center copy has partially illegible manuscript note ("[...] [...] 179") in blue pencil on front pastedown; text annotated in ink, pencil, red pencil and blue pencil.

Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from Schoen Books.

Kislak Center copy has gold-stamped black leather label ("MR. S.S. KENT.") on left board.

Kislak Center copy has bookplate ("Cambridge University Musical Club The bequest of J.E. Nixon, M.A., Fellow of King's College 1916") with manuscript shelf-mark ("6.3.14") in pencil, stamped with withdrawal stamp, on front pastedown; round perforated stamp ("U C M C") of the same institution on title leaf.

Kislak Center copy has stamp ("J.E. Nixon") on title leaf; partially illegible blue ink stamp ("[...] Nixon") on title leaf.

Kislak Center copy: leaves closely cropped at head margin with occasional damage to or loss of page numbers.

Kislak Center copy: indexes to each volume bound in at end of volume 4.

OCLC:

1451540068