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Early Music: Rare Music Manuscripts, Printed Music and Books from the Library of Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940)
Early Music: Rare Music Manuscripts, Printed Music and Books from the Library of Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940)
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C.P.E. Bach. Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen...Erster [...Zweyter] Theil...Zweyte Auflage, 1780
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September 14, 01:10 PM GMT
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100 - 150 GBP
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Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bachs Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen...Erster [...Zweyter] Theil. Zweyte Auflage, Leipzig: im Schwickertschen Verlage, 1780
4 leaves and 118 pages, 5 leaves and 341, [1] pages, 4to (20.7 x 17.3cm), type-set music, modern pencil annotation to title, Dolmetsch Library stamp and pencil shelfmark ("II B 8") to verso of title, red edges, postcard portrait of the composer affixed to front pastedown, contemporary reversed calf, without folding sheet of engraved music, covers worn
Together with a copy of the "Probestücken" lacking the title-page (supplied in photocopy), possibly the Schwickert 1780 edition [RISM B 149]: 6, [1 blank], 25 pages, large folio (39.6 x 26.6cm), engraved musical examples and music, bookplate of H. Henkel to front pastedown, Dolmetsch Library stamp and pencil shelfmark ("II C 43"), nineteenth-century boards
LITERATURE:
RISM Écrits, p.106; Hirsch, i 44 and 45