Author: HANDEL, GEORGE FRIEDRICH
Title: Handel's Oratorio Judas Maccabaeus, in Vocal Score - Novello's Second Revised Edition
Description: Boston, Oliver Ditson, no date (circa 1872). 1872. Hardcover . Hardback, small quarto, appx 7 x 10 1/4 inches, black titles on green paper-covered boards with a maroon cloth backstrip, 186 pages, VG. Quite nice, with Salem, Massachusetts programs and membership card laid-in. Mostly very clean inside and out. Binding sound with hinges intact. Certainly some wear evident, but not a great amount. Corners rubbed through, a little fraying at spine-ends, some rubbing to edges and a couple of mild bumps at top edge of front board. FFEP has previous owner name and date in ink: "Annie S. Brooks, March 9, 1875." FFEP also contains A.S. Brooks' pink Member's Ticket in the Salem Oratorio Society, inserted by all four corners into diecut slits. Two differently designed programs laid-in - March and April, 1875 performances by the Salem Oratorio Society's entire chorus, with soloists and The Germania Orchestra, George W. Sumner, Organist and Carl Zerrahn, Conductor. (Performances at Mechanic Hall, Salem.) Also laid-in is a folded sheet of music (three choruses) entitled "Class Song, 1876" - Words by Wm. F. Kip. (School unknown.) Ditson ads to inside covers and outside back cover. Lower corner of front pastedown has music shop stamp: A.A. Smith & Co. Salem, Mass. Very Good.

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