Lot 139 - MUSIC: Batholomew, William, and Mendelssohn

MUSIC: Batholomew, William, and Mendelssohn Batholdy, Felix; Elijah, an Oratorio, The English Version, Ewer & Co, London, nd circa 1860s., 218 numbered pages of musical score plus preliminaries and publisher's catalogue, bound in tooled brown cloth with gilt title to spine, approx 26 x 17.5cm; together with Bachmann, Alberto; An Encyclopedia of the Violin, The Library Press Ltd, London, and D. Appleton & Co, 1925, photographic illustrated frontispiece, 468 pages plus preliminaries, plates and index, illustrated with music scores throughout, bound in gilt-tooled green cloth, approx 22 x 14.5cm; Ritter, Frederic Louis; History of Music: From the Christian Era to the Present Time, in the Form of Lectures, William Reeves, London 1876, illustrated frontispiece, 470 gilt-edged pages plus index, marbled endpapers, bound in gilt-tooled red calf with raised bands to the spine, approx 19 x 12.5cm; a bound article as removed from Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature v.16 (1819), being The History of Music Theoretical and Practical, by John Wilkes of Milland House, Sussex, with hand-written title page, the pages numbered 285 to 398, with colour illustrated plates and pages of music scores, bound in blue-green cloth with gilt title to spine, with armorial bookplate for Heron-Allen to inside front cover, approx 30.5 x 23.5cm; and a hand-written musical score titled Henrietta, with owners name Elizabeth Scott Hadow dated December 1836, bound in marbled half calf (5)

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