[Rarebooks] FS: Bach in 46 volumes

[Clare Murphy]

BACH, JOHANN. SEBASTIAN.  JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH'S 
WERKE: BACH-GESELLSCHAFT EDITION. Leipzig, 
Breitkopf and Härtel,., 1851-99. Edited by The 
Bach-Gesellschaft. First edition. 46 volumes. 
Original half morocco gilt with cloth-covered 
boards and marbled end papers. 4to. Near fine. 
Forty-six volumes in forty-seven books. The 
original complete collection of Bach's works, the 
Bach-Gesellschaft edition, appeared in Leipzig in 
46 volumes between 1851 and 1899. It was the 
first "complete works" edition to publish a 
composer's notation without deliberate editorial 
tampering, to include almost every composition, 
and to provide a critical apparatus, serving as a 
model for virtually every critical edition since 
that day.

The Morocco spines have some rubbing and the 
marble paper first free end paper in volume I is 
loose but present; otherwise an amazingly fine 
set.  $16500.00

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