48 Préludes et Fugues, Dans tous les Tons, tant Majeurs, que Mineurs...2do. Partie (First Edition of Book 1)

Composer: Bach, J.S.

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Category: Piano Solo

Product ID: 9995

Date: 1802

Publisher: Simrock

Format: 83pp engraved, oblong folio

Binding: Old half-leather

Price: £1,200.00

Description: Worn: boards worn and almost completely detached, backstrip shot, lacks feps. Title-page crumpled and dust-stained, with further marks/spots. Title and pp.1-4 detached, with worn edges. Some grubby/creased corners, some spots/dust-staining in a few places throughout. Some slight pencil

Notes: What is considered to be the earliest of the first editions of Book 1 of Bach's 48 (BWV 846-849). "Ecrit par Sampier" on title-page. Pn.166. Simrock issued book 1 as book 2, there is an extra bar in the C major prelude (bar 23), no plate-number to title or pp.14 & 60 (RISM B498, Fuld 117-118, Hoboken i,94)