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A second collection of catches canons and glees for three, four, five and eight voices. Most humbly inscrib’d to the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Catch-Club at St Alban’s Tavern

Archive Print Item: Armytage Music Books 2

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Type of record: Book

Title: A second collection of catches canons and glees for three, four, five and eight voices. Most humbly inscrib’d to the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Catch-Club at St Alban’s Tavern

Other titles: Catches and Glees

Level: Item

Classmark: Armytage Music Books 2

Additional creator(s): Warren, Edmund Thomas (1730-1794) (Editor); Armytage family (Former owner); A. M. Pigott (Bookseller)

Publisher: Printed by Peter Welcker

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1764

Language: English

Size and medium: [2], 51, [1]; [4], 50; [4], 45, [1]; [4], 51, [1]; [2], 49, [1] pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/777777

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020258197605181

Description

Engraved music.

With an index.

5 works in one bound volume.

Contents: 2. A Seventh Collection of Catches Canons and Glees for three and four Voices. Most humbly inscrib’d to the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Catch Club at the Thatched House Tavern St James’s … London Printed by Welcker … [1769] -- 3. An Eighth Collection of Catches Canons and Glees for three, four, and five Voices. Most humbly inscrib’d to the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Catch Club at the Thatched House Tavern St James’s … London Printed by Welcker … [1770] -- 4. A Sixteenth Collection of Catches Canons and Glees for three, four, and five Voices. Most humbly inscribed to the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Catch Club at the Thatch’d House Tavern St James’s … London Printed by Longman & Broderip … [1778] -- 5. A Twenty-ninth Collection of Catches Canons and Glees for three, four, and five Voices. Most humbly inscribed to the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Catch Club at the Thatch’d House Tavern, St James’s … London Printed for the Editor by Longman and Broderip … [1791].

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Leeds University Library copy at Armytage Music Books 3 : nineteenth-century brown cloth [worn], spine title: Catches and Glees.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Armytage Music Books 3: From the library of the Armytage family, Kirklees Hall, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, acquired by Leeds University Library in 2024. MS. annotation on front flyleaf in ink including price: 1 : 11 : 6. A second [collection of...] is written in MS on the title page. A sixteenth [collection of ...] is written in MS on the title page. A twenty-ninth collection of catches canons and glees has two pages 15 and 16 in manuscript. Bookseller's printed label on rear pastedown: A.M. Pigott, publisher, bookseller & stationer, Kennington Park Corner, Aldine Chambers, Paternoster Row, London.

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