J.S. Bach. Four first or early editions of his keyboard works, early C19th

Johann Sebastian Bach

Four first or early editions of his keyboard works

XV Inventions Pour le Clavecin [BWV 772-786], Leipzig: au Bureau de Musique de A. Kühnel, [after 1801], 15 pages, plate number 51 [not in Hoboken]--Grandes Suites dites Suites Angloises pour le Clavecin...No. I [BWV 808], Leipzig: chez Hoffmeister & Kühnel (Bureau de Musique.), [1805?], FIRST EDITION (?), 15 pages, plate number 412 [not in Hoboken]--Six preludes à l'usage des Commençants pour le Clavecin [BWV 933-938], Leipzig: Hoffmeister et Kühnel /: Bureau de Musique :/, [no date], 7 pages, plate number 89 [not in Hoboken]--Fantaisie pour le Clavecin...N^o I [BWV 906], Leipzig: chez C. F. Peters. Bureau de Musique, [c.1817], 4 pages, plate number 137 [Hoboken 105]; bound together with a C19th edition of the overture from Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide, arranged for piano four hands

5 volumes in one, oblong 4to (c.24 x 32.5cm), engraved music, some pencil annotations, contemporary boards, small tear to pp.9/10 of first volume, slightly affecting text on p.10, light wear to binding

Schmieder (p.611) notes that Gavotte II from the third English Suite, BWV 808, was first published in 1760 by Birnstiel. The first edition of the suite as a whole was that of Hoffmeister & Kühnel in 1805; a second edition followed in 1814. Formerly in the collection of Ernst Rudorff.