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FOX-HUNTING MUSIC AND SONGS -- The Hunting Notes of the French Horn after a Perfect New Method ... to which are added a collection of favourite duetts ... set by Mr. Winch . [London]: In[ig]o Simpson, [c. 1745]. 8° (232 x 139mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved title and 24p. engraved music. Old style calf. ONLY KNOWN EDITION. Copac locates only one copy (BL, with two mutilated leaves). Inigo Simpson appears to have been a specialist music publisher with premises at 'the Bass Viol and Flute in Sweetings Alley'. JONES, J. New Instructions for the Bugle with hunting and military calls . London: W. Roberts, [c. 1805]. 4° (242 x 175mm). 4ll. of engraved text and music, including engraved headpiece on title. (Some browning.) Polished calf gilt by Riviere with Schwerdt arms on spine, contemporary grey wrapper bound in (covers slightly bowed and scuffed). Provenance : C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (armorial device; his sale, 10 July 1936, lot 1602). Schwerdt I, p. 272. WICKSTEED, Charles. The Cheshire Hunt. A Song . Chester: for the publisher [John Twemlow] by T. Griffith, 1837. 4° (262 x 210mm). Hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece and one plate by W. Crane after J. Bryan. Contemporary cloth (spine worn, front inner hinges split). Provenance : C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 11 March 1946, lot 2148, part lot). Schwerdt II, 294: 'Very rare ... We have never heard of another copy'. (2)