Six Solos for a Violin and Bass Humbly Dedicated to Sir Rowland Wynne Bart ... Opera Prima. Price 7s: 6. ... Ashby sc. [Score]

London: Printed & Sold by William Napier at his Music Shop the Corner of oancaster Court in the Strand, 1772. Folio. Disbound. [i] (title), 2-35, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved throughout. Violin part with figured basso continuo accompaniment.

Light uniform browning; occasional minor soiling and small stains; title partially detached at lower portion. [?]Third edition of Borghi's Op. 1. BUC p. 124 (three editions were published by Napier between ca. 1772-1775; the present is the one without the dedicatory preface). RISM B3638. Napier's were the first editions of this set published in England.

Borghi, an Italian violinist and composer, "was a pupil of Pugnani and friend of Sir William Hamilton, and settled in London around 1769. A prominent orchestral violinist, he was leader of the second violins at the Handel Commemoration of 1784 and at the Professional Concert from 1785 until 1792, and played regularly with Cramer in quartets and other chamber music. He composed ballet music for the Italian opera, was assistant manager of O'Reilly's opera company at the Pantheon in 1791 and, shortly afterwards, married the prima donna Anna Casentini (fl 1787-96). His works, among which the violin concertos are notable examples of the galant style, were published both in England and on the Continent." John A. Parkinson and Simon McVeigh in Grove Music Online.