F. Couperin. Second livre de pièces de clavecin, first edition, second issue [c.1717]

Couperin, François

Second livre de pièces de clavecin, Paris: L'Auteur, Foucault, [c.1717]

FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, 3 leaves, 86, [1] pages, engraved throughout, dedication, preface, privilege (dated 1713), with table of contents on pp.84-86, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, retaining almost all of original spine, light browning to edges

Rare.

Couperin's four volumes of music for harpsichord, first published respectively in 1713, 1716-1717, 1722 and 1730, are one of the great glories of music from the eighteenth century. 

LITERATURE

RISM C 4289; not in Hoboken; TNG, vi, p.592