746. Burges (John Henry) A collection of catches, glees & songs, dedicated to Mrs. John Smith, engraved throughout, decorative title, signed by [Samuel John] Neele, list of contents, pp. 2-41, half calf, worn, bound with c. 10 similar pieces, one including a setting of Gray’s Elegy, another inscribed “From Mr. Aylward to the Catch Club at Windsor” Oxford, Henry Hardy, [c.1795].
est. £200 – £400
Apparently unrecorded, though obviously connected with A collection of catches, glees & songs, dedicated to Lady Smith Burges, by an amateur, London, Lavenu,1796 [only the Harding-Bodley copy ; not in BUCEM]. Among the others are Maurice Greene, Catches and Canons, Walsh, [1747]; Richard Webb, Four Glees, [c.1790] [Cardiff only]; Maria Hester Park, A set of glees, printed for the author , [1790] ; Clement Smith, Here’s a health unto their Majesties, [c. 1800] [Gresham College only];J. Scott, A first set of glees, [c. 1799] [BL only].