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BINDINGS – [A collection of 16 bound volumes of engraved scores by Mozart, Haydn, and others, principally for piano and violin, among other instruments]. London and Paris: c.1800.
An attractive collection of engraved music scores in contemporary fine bindings. This set includes scores for Mozart’s Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute, and The Marriage of Figaro, as well as works by composers including Haydn, Handel, Meyerbeer, Rossini, Corelli, and Weber. Sold as a collection not subject to return. Approx. 113 works in 16 volumes, quarto (approx. 328 x 258mm). Many with engraved titles and portraits, some titles with engraved vignettes (occasional faint spotting). Near uniform contemporary red half morocco over marbled paper boards, spines elaborately gilt, many with tooled musical motifs, upper covers with red morocco labels lettered in gilt (one volume with inner hinge broken, a few nicks, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: some stamps from R. Cocks & Co., a contemporary music dealer in Hanover Square, London – Easton Neston Library (labels). Easton Neston; sold Sotheby's house sale, 17-19 May 2005, lot 426.
Easton Neston is a large country house in Northamptonshire, built for William Fermor, 1st Baron Leominster by the celebrated architect Nicholas Hawksmoor. Frederick Fermor-Hesketh, 2nd Baron Hesketh (1916-1955) was a celebrated bibliophile and it is possible that these bindings were collected by him, before being dispersed in the Sotheby’s 2005 house sale. Interestingly the library at Easton Neston is a new addition, designed by David Hicks and architect, Roderick Gradidge.