Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu Spielen. Zweyter Theil, in welchem die Lehre von dem Accompagnement und der freyen Fantasie abgehandelt wird.
Berlin: Gedruckt bey George Ludewig Winter. 1762. First edition.
5ff., 341 pp. Quarto, 1 plate; marbled paper boards, leather plates to spine. Internally occasional foxed, a few pages underlined in pencil, otherwise in very fine condition and very well preserved. Wotquenne No. 255; Helm 870; Wolfheim 1 No. 474; Rism B VI p. 106.
The very rare first edition of the second volume of C.P.E. Bach's influential Klavierschule, a treatise which remains an essential reference to this day and which laid the foundation for the methods of Clementi, Cramer and others.
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