48 préludes et fugues dans tous les tons tant majeurs, que mineurs pour le clavecin ou piano-forte. 1e [2e] partie. (BWV 846-893)

Bonn: N. Simrock. [1802]. Oblong 4to, two volumes in one, 97, 83 pp. Engraved throughout, plate numbers 138 (I Partie and II Partie, title) and 166 (II Partie, music). The two books of the WTC are bound in reverse order. Half brown leather, a little rubbed, stamps on title pages, title pages stamped on replaced upper right corners, otherwise a very good copy. Not in Hoboken.



Rare edition published shortly after the first edition, of the the Well-tempered Clavier, a work which stands at the core of baroque keyboard music and has been a model and inspiration for performers and composers ever since it was written. (8932)

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