R. Vaughan Williams. Collection of six annotated and inscribed scores

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Collection of six annotated and inscribed printed editions, comprising

editions of Sancta Civitas, Symphony in D major, A London Symphony, A Vision of Aeroplanes, This Day (Hodie), and Vaughan Williams's copy of a Novello edition of the vocal score of Bach's B minor Mass, the latter in particular extensively annotated by the composer, and including one bar of music written on a hand-drawn stave in the lower margin of the score

6 volumes, various sizes, some inscribed to Michael [Kennedy], Vaughan Williams's annotations, inscriptions, revisions and additions in pencil and ink, some volumes blind-stamped "Library of Michael Kennedy", some wear to wrappers, Vaughan Williams's Bach edition lacking covers, preliminaries and final chorus; together with: a Novello edition of the B minor Mass marked up by Barbirolli and inscribed by him "This score contains all the cuts, alterations etc, as made by Vaughan Williams in his abridged version...19/ix/56. B."; and three other scores