"A representative selection of the songs that were sung at the London pleasure gardens during the latter half of the eighteenth century."

For voice and continuo; several songs have added instrumental parts.

"This book has been produced under the direction of Hubert J. Foss and Francis Meynell. Eight hundred and seventy-five copies have been printed by the offset lithographic process at the Curwen press. The music and it accompanying text have been engraved by Lowe & Brydone with the punches designed at the Oxford University Press for the Carneigie United Kingdom Trust's Quarto Edition of Tudor Church Music ... The title page design has been made and engraved by Stephen Gooden; the miscellaneous eighteenth-century ornaments have been engraved in wood by W.M.R. Quick." Cf. the limited ed. statement.

Music copy: With the bookplate and signature of William Maxwell.CaOTUM

Fisher D-11 copy: No. 509 of 850 copies. With dustjacket.