Author
Corfe, Joseph, 1740 or 1741-1820
Uniform title
Glees. Set 2
Title
Twelve glees for three and four voices, : dedicated (by permission) to his Grace the Duke of Leeds,. [2nd set]. / Composed from ancient Scotch melodies, by Joseph Corfe, Gentleman of His Majesty's Chapels Royal, & organist of the Cathedral at Salisbury..
Varying form of title
Other title: Twelve glees for three and four voices. Book the second
Imprint
London, : printed & sold by Preston, at his wholesale warehouses, 97, Strand., [179-]
Physical description
1 score ([4], 35, [1] p.) ; 26 x 38 cm
Note
Unaccompanied arrangements of songs printed in open score; most arrangements are for four voices: soprano, alto (or, in some instances, 2d. soprano), tenor, bass; 'My days have been' is for 3 voices, unspecified; 'Fly ye storms' is for 5 voices: soprano, alto or 2d. soprano, tenor, tenor, bass.
Note
The second of three sets of glees.
Note
'Index to book the second' printed before the score.
Note
At foot of title page: "Publish'd as the Act directs."
Note
The first set of Twelve glees was originally issued late in 1791.
Formatted contents note
Contents: Down the bourne -- Soft pleasing pains -- Donald -- Mary's dream -- Kate of Aberdeen -- One day I heard Mary say -- My days have been -- Auld Robin Gray -- Hear me ye nymphs -- At setting day -- Fly ye storms -- Full fathom five.
Citation/references note
RISM A/I, C 3920
Language
Sung words in English and Scots.
Provenance
Bookplate on upper pastedown: "E libris Jvliani Marshall".
Provenance
On third upper endleaf of this bound collection, a (somewhat inaccurate) biographical inscription, in ink: "Joseph Corfe was probably the son (correction added in red ink: "no, - nephew") of James Corfe who published (added in red ink: "about 1740") a set of 12 songs advertised in the Daily Advertiser 27 Sept 1843 [sic, i.e. 1743]. He was born in Salisbury 1740 and was a chorister there under Doctor Stephens then organist[.] He was appointed Gent. of the Chapel Royal in 1782 [sic, i.e. 1783], and organist of Salisbury in 1792, which place resigned in 1804 in favour of his son Arthur Thomas, and died in 1820. He was much noticed by the Malmesbury family. His Beauties of Purcell were dedicated to Miss Susan Beckford, daughter of Mr Beckford of Fonthill Abbey, afterwards Duchess of Hamilton." Added below this inscription, in red ink and in the hand of Edward Charles Corfe, the inscription: "Joseph Corfe, (the second) was son of Joseph Corfe (born 1704), who was a brother of the James Corfe above named, otherwise thiis notice is correct. E. C. Corfe, Precentor of Truro, 1904-1930." A further inscription, in black ink, states that "The above note is in the handwriting of the late Mr. T. Oliphant."
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (20th century, reprinted 2019) with design based on the Dean and Chapter seal, and inscription “Sarvm Cathedral Library.”
Binding
19th-century half tan sheepskin; boards covered with textured red cloth (not "half red morocco" as in the bookseller's advertisement); gilt fillets on boards; spine with five raised bands and gilt tooling; head-edge of text block gilded; marbled endleaves; binder’s stamp on verso of marbled endleaf: “Bound by F. Bedford”.
Copy-specific note
Bound with: Twelve glees [set 1], and, A third set of Twelve glees. Several inscriptions, in pencil, on the upper endleaves relate to the fact that 3 sets of glees are here bound in one volume: "3 vols in 1", "Glees. Corfe Glees 3 Sets 1 [?]", "Corfe's Glees, 3 books in 1".
Copy-specific note
Includes 3 cuttings (2 pasted onto upper endleaves, 1 loose between them), apparently taken from book sale catalogues; no. 136 (loosely inserted) appears to be an accurate description of the present volume; the other two are inaccurate, this volume lacking both the list of subscribers and the "pretty vignette": "136 Corfe ... Twelve [24] glees .... Two books. Preston, ... . A third set of Twelve glees ... ... . 3 vols. in 1, oblong folio, the music engraved throughout, half red morocco, top edges gilt, by Bedford, from the Julian Marshall collection, with a note on Corfe in T. Oliphant's autograph 1l. 10s."; "95 Corfe ... Twelve [24] glees ... . Two books. 1791. - A third set of twelve glees ... ... . 3 vols. in 1, oblong folio, pretty vignette by Bromley on title-page of the first book, and list of subscribers ... ."; "54 Corfe. ... . Twelve glees ... . Publish'd Octr. 1st. 1791. Oblong folio, pretty vignette on title engraved by W. Bromley ... . ... . [Added in ink]: From Messrs. Ellis' catalogue - no. 297 of Rare old music."
Subject
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Subject
Glees, catches, rounds, etc.
Subject
Vocal trios, Unaccompanied.
Subject
Vocal quartets, Unaccompanied.
Subject
Vocal quintets, Unaccompanied.
Subject
Songs, Scots.
Added entry--name
Preston, T. (Thomas), -1834 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Leeds, Francis Godolphin Osborne, Duke of, 1751-1799 dedicatee.
Added entry--name
Oliphant, Thomas, 1799-1873 former owner.
Added entry--name
Marshall, Julian former owner.
Added entry--name
Corfe, Edward Charles, 1852-1937 former owner.
Added entry--name
Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883 bookbinder.
Added entry--place
England London.
B19451
UKSbSC
20250430141847.4