A highly interesting and important pair of scores for the Bach St. Matthew Passion, marked up by the composer/conductor Vaughan Williams for performances at the Leith Festival, and by the conductor Barbirolli, drawing on the markings of the former.  The fragmentary score was by and large marked up by Vaughan Williams himself (some other markings are difficult to positively identify) and served as the template for Barbirolli's markup in the complete score. Even though English musicians assumed a pioneering role in the movement of historically informed performance practice, the present scores testify to a different performing tradition; there are two included programs from 1955 and 1956 mentioning a pianoforte and even a Hammond organ.  Cuts affect mostly arias and, to a lesser extent, the biblical narration, but hardly the choruses.  Detailed descriptions of the two scores follow here. 

Ralph Vaughan Williams became conductor of the Leith Hill Musical Festival in 1905 for the first concert, and continued in this capacity until 1953, still returning to conduct the Matthew Passion in subsequent years. "The work for which RVW is chiefly remembered in Dorking is probably not one of his own compositions, but the Bach St Matthew Passion. This was first performed in the town by the combined Festival choirs in 1931 at the opening of Dorking Halls...RVW had a deep love of Bach’s music and always took charge of the St Matthew rehearsals personally... His interpretation of the St Matthew however, was rather eccentric, and very far from the ‘authentic’ performances of today. He hated the sound of the harpsichord, so, as Sir Adrian Boult said “he wrote most extraordinary things for the piano to play.” In spite of this some wonderful performances of the Passion were given and even broadcast on occasions. RVW continued to conduct the work up to the year of his death." (https://rvwsociety.com/leith-hill-musical-festival/) A 1958 recording of RVW conducting the Matthew Passion at the Leith Hill Festival is available on Pearl Records. 

First score:

The Passion of Our Lord / According to S. Matthew.  Vocal score.  London & New York: Novello, Ewer & Co., [1894].  Quarter-cloth octavo.  xii, 188 pp. plus 10 pp. of publisher's catalogue.  Lithograph.  PN. 8098.  Text in English (only) by the "Reverend Dr. Troutbeck" (John Troutbeck, 1832–1899).  The preface (p. [iii]), unsigned and dated "February 1894," explains that the edition is based on the first English edition by William Sterndale Bennett (1862) but the translation of the text is new.  Original boards. 10 x 6.75 inches (25.5 x 17 cm).

Score marked up in pencil by Barbirolli and inscribed by him on p.[iii], "This score contains all the cuts, alterations etc, as made by Vaughan Williams in his abridged version...19/IX/[19]56. B."  In some recitatives, music and text underlay are altered; some of the chorales are marked, "with audience".  A few marks in blue ball-point pen are in a different hand.  Inscription, "J. C Langford | Withington" to head of title and foot of front pastedown (all end papers, including pastedown, are publisher's catalogues).  Program of a performance of the work at the 1955 Leith Hill Musical Festival, conducted by Vaughan Williams, pasted in to verso of title.  Some pages in cut passages are clipped together; others are folded in.  Somewhat worn; slightly foxed; paper clips rusty; slight tears; else in good condition.

Second score:

[J.S. Bach, The Passion of our Lord According to St Matthew.  Vocal score.  Edited by Edward Elgar and Ivor Atkins.  London: Novello, 1911.]  Large octavo.  x, 197 pp.  PN 13443.  Text in English only.  11 x 7.75 inches (28 x 20 cm).  Title, first leaf [pp. i-ii], final signature (pp. 191–97), and wrappers lacking.  

Same cuts indicated as in above; at longer cuts, pages clipped or taped together; annotations are also mostly the same, in pencil, red crayon and (occasionally) in ink , those in black ink and sometimes in pencil easily identifiably as in the hand of Vaughan Williams, others in the hand of Barbirolli or unidentified hand. Occasional pasteovers in the music (pp. 105–6).  With program (1 leaf) of a performance of the work at the 1956 Leith Hill Musical Festival, conducted by Vaughan Williams.  Somewhat worn; paper clips rusty; else in good condition.