Henry Playford

Songs Compleat, Pleasant and Divertive; Set to Musick by Dr. John Blow, Mr. Henry Purcell, and Other Excellent Masters ... Ending with Some Orations, ... ... Written by Mr. D'urfey. Volume 1 of 2 Henry Playford

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British Library

T134708

Dedication signed: T. D'Urfey. The first issue of the 1719 and 1720 collection of 'Wit and mirth: or, pills to purge melancholy'; subsequently reissued under the original title. The first two volumes mostly contain songs by the editor Thomas D'Urfey, wi

London : printed by W. Pearson, for J. Tonson, 1719. 2v.,plate : ill.,music,port. ; 12°;