Blow (John). Amphion Anglicus. A Work of Many Compositions, For One, Two, Three and Four Voices: with sevral accompagnements of Instrumental Music; and a Thorow-Bass to each Song: figur’d for an Organ, Harpsichord, or Theorboe-Lute, printed by William Pearson for the Author, 1700, engraved portrait frontispiece by R. White, title printed in red and black, preliminary leaves and 216 pages (portrait, a-b2, a-b2, unsigned advertisement leaf with Table of Songs to verso, B-Z2, Aa-Zz2, Aaa-Iii2), short closed marginal tear to foot of title, generally a good, clean copy, small pale green oval ownership stamp of B. F. Leavens to title and first leaf of dedication, later endpapers, 20th century olive green plain morocco with red gilt morocco spine label, spine and head of upper cover faded to brown, folio (32 x 19.5 cm) (Qty: 1) Provenance: Benjamin Franklin Leavens (1817-1850), American church composer and author of The Service of Song (Boston, 1849). Day & Murrie, English Song-Books 1651-1702, 183; Wing B3353. The English composer John Blow (1649-1708) was organist at Westminster Abbey, a post he generously passed to his pupil Henry Purcell in 1679, until he resumed the role following Purcell’s untimely death in 1695. Blow’s music, alongside that of other English Baroque composers, has undergone a significant revival in recent decades, led particularly in England by Anthony Rooley with the Consort of Musicke, and Peter Holman and the Parley of Instruments. His Amphion Anglicus brings together both sacred and secular songs in a single publication, and is modelled on Purcell’s own collection of 1698, Orpheus Britannicus.
Blow (John). Amphion Anglicus. A Work of Many Compositions, For One, Two, Three and Four Voices: with sevral accompagnements of Instrumental Music; and a Thorow-Bass to each Song: figur’d for an Organ, Harpsichord, or Theorboe-Lute, printed by William Pearson for the Author, 1700, engraved portrait frontispiece by R. White, title printed in red and black, preliminary leaves and 216 pages (portrait, a-b2, a-b2, unsigned advertisement leaf with Table of Songs to verso, B-Z2, Aa-Zz2, Aaa-Iii2), short closed marginal tear to foot of title, generally a good, clean copy, small pale green oval ownership stamp of B. F. Leavens to title and first leaf of dedication, later endpapers, 20th century olive green plain morocco with red gilt morocco spine label, spine and head of upper cover faded to brown, folio (32 x 19.5 cm) (Qty: 1) Provenance: Benjamin Franklin Leavens (1817-1850), American church composer and author of The Service of Song (Boston, 1849). Day & Murrie, English Song-Books 1651-1702, 183; Wing B3353. The English composer John Blow (1649-1708) was organist at Westminster Abbey, a post he generously passed to his pupil Henry Purcell in 1679, until he resumed the role following Purcell’s untimely death in 1695. Blow’s music, alongside that of other English Baroque composers, has undergone a significant revival in recent decades, led particularly in England by Anthony Rooley with the Consort of Musicke, and Peter Holman and the Parley of Instruments. His Amphion Anglicus brings together both sacred and secular songs in a single publication, and is modelled on Purcell’s own collection of 1698, Orpheus Britannicus.
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