[Love in a village
Subtitle: a comic opera, as it is perform'd at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden
By: the musick by Handel, Boyce, Arne, Howard, Baildon, Festing, Geminiani, Galuppi, Giardini, Paradies, Agus, Abos ; for the harpsichord, voice, German flute, or violin]
Contributors: Bickerstaff, Isaac, 1735-1812
Publisher: Printed for J. Walsh in Catharine Street in the Strand
Published: 1763
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: Operas; Vocal scores with piano
Work titles: Love in a village. Vocal score
Notes: Libretto by Isaac Bickerstaffe.

A pasticcio of 42 items, composed or arranged by Thomas Augustine Arne to a libretto by Isaac Bickerstaff after Charles Johnson's The village opera (1729); 18 numbers by Arne; other composers represented include Boyce, Howard, Baildon, Festing, Geminiani, Galuppi, Giardini, Paradies, Agus, and Abos. Cf. Grove (Oxford Music Online).

Figured bass.

Many numbers indicate the name of the singer who sang in the premiere.

Lacks title page and cover.

W.C. Smith and C. Humphries, A bibliography of the musical works published by the firm of John Walsh during the years 1721-1766: p. 219, no. 969.

Dr. James L. and Dr. Margaret Whitby donation.