Bound in half black leather with grey textured paper, title in gilt on spine; Folio, [ii] 194 pp + 1 pp publisher's catalogue; engraved portrait frontispiece of Handel, tissue-guarded; biographical sketch of Handel written expressly for this volume; manuscript arranged from the original score by W Carnaby Mus. Doc. Cantab., with an accompaniment for the Organ, Piano or Seraphine. The pieces are arranged in order but consist of a collection of individually published manuscripts bound together. Boards showing age with insects and damp affecting the paper on the boards; binding is firm; age-toning on manuscript pages. This volume is undated but there is a reference on the portrait engraving to Day & Naghe, publishers to the Queen (presumably Queen Victoria).