Edited by Terence Best

Contributors:

`will excite Handel scholars' Early Music News -

'this volume...should be on the shelves of anyone interested in Handel. It is a model for similar works oncernign other composers, and a testament to Handel's capacity for creating interest, in his own time as well as in ours.' '...it is good to find an authoritative book which aims to 'bridge the traditional divide between musicology and practical music making.' Early Music Today -

'a book which can be read through from cover to cover, consistently literate, firmly edited, the bibliographical discussion humane and subtle, and about a very important subject ... All the articles except for two (which do not require them) have extremely useful and clear appendices. The music examples and illustrations are excellent, and the indexing adequate. All in all, a model of how these things can be done.' Richard Luckett, The Music Times, May 1994 -

'a book which can be read through from cover to cover, consistently literate, firmly edited, the bibliographical discussion humane and subtle, and about a very important subject ... The music examples and illustrations are excellent, and the indexing adequate, if not copious. All in all, a model of how these things can be done.' Richard Luckett, The Musical Times, May 1994 -

this is a beautifully produced, stylishly edited and most useful reference work. Many of the essays trace the provenance of the collections as thoroughly as possible, and the appendices are often definitive, providing a wealth of information on watermarks, rastra, dates and so forth which will be of great value to scholars. Handel Collections shows how far Handel studies have come, and at the same time indicates how much more remains to be done. - Music and Letters Vol 76, 3