PURCELL, Henry. Orpheus Britannicus. A Collection of all the Choicest Songs for One, Two, and Three Voices, London: for Henry Playford, 1698-1702, 2 volumes in one, small 2°, FIRST EDITIONS, engraved portrait frontispiece, titles printed in red and black (frontispiece detached, some laminated repairs to first volume, part of outer margin of second title torn away and pasted to following leaf with loss of two letters to 7 lines of text, browned throughout), later sprinkled calf gilt (front joints split but cords holding, rubbed), g.e. [first vol.: Wing P4218]

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PURCELL, Henry. Orpheus Britannicus. A Collection of all the Choicest Songs for One, Two, and Three Voices, London: for Henry Playford, 1698-1702, 2 volumes in one, small 2°, FIRST EDITIONS, engraved portrait frontispiece, titles printed in red and black (frontispiece detached, some laminated repairs to first volume, part of outer margin of second title torn away and pasted to following leaf with loss of two letters to 7 lines of text, browned throughout), later sprinkled calf gilt (front joints split but cords holding, rubbed), g.e. [first vol.: Wing P4218]
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Ashley Pimlico, early ownership inscription to first title; J. M. Harris, ownership inscription to both titles.

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