A dialogue in the opera call'd The fairy queen / set by Mr. Henry Purcell ; sung by Mr. Reading and (Mr. Pate in womans habit) and exactly engrav'd by Tho. Cross.

Fairy queen. Now the maids and the men are making their hay

First line: Now the maids and the men are making their hay

[London] : [s.n.], [between 1692 and 1695]

[4] leaves : music ; 33 cm (fol.)

Wholly engraved.

Title from caption leaf [1].

Date of publication conjectured to be between 1692 (when The fairy queen was first performed) and Purcell's death in 1695. Thomas Cross was a London engraver.

Printed on alternating versos and rectos.

Not in English short title catalogue, 2019-07-22

Not in Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.). See P4216B for a letterpress version.

Great Britain -- England -- London, -- publication place.

P4216a

'No. 13' in red ink in early hand at head of each page. In a quarter leather (goatskin?) binding with marbled paper boards and endpapers; gold spine titling.

cs472?