Folio. Two volumes bound as one. [6], 184; [6], 155pp, [1]. Vol. I with letterpress title page and preliminaries, except for the dedication leaf which, with the remainder, is engraved; Vol. II has letterpress title page and dedication leaf, the remainder being engraved. Some ink annotations to the tables of anthems.

This second edition is a reissue of the original edition of the same years; Vol. I has a engraved dedication leaf replacing the letterpress dedication leaf and without the list of subscribers.

William Croft's major work, the publication of which completed only a year before his own death. As the composer notes in his preface, it was the first appearance of engraved English church music printed in score. Published by subscription, Musica Sacra consists entirely of his own select anthems but for a single verse of The Burial Service, still used in today's Anglican communion, 'composed by my predecessor, the famous Mr. Henry Purcell, to which, in justice to his memory, his name is applied; the Reason why I did not compose that Verse a-new...is obvious to every artist'.