Messiah
Subtitle: An oratorio. As it is perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden
By: Set to musick by Mr. Handel
Contributors: Jennens, Charles, 1700-1773
Publisher: Printed for J. Watts: and sold by B. Dod at the Bible and Key in Ave-Maria-Lane near Stationers-Hall
Published: 1762
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Oratorios; Librettos
Work titles: Messiah
Notes: The libretto only; the words selected from the Bible by Charles Jennens.

The ornament at the foot of the t.p. is also found on the t.p.s of the same publishers' editions of Handel's Judas Macchabaeus (1763) and Jephtha (1762). The initial on p. [14] is the same, even as to wear, as that found on p. [5] of the edition of Jeptha mentioned above.

Head- and tail-pieces; initials.

Without the music.