Six Sonatas For Two Violins, and a Violoncello Obligato ... Opera II
London: Printed for R. Bremner, facing Somerset House in the Strand, ca. 1775.
Folio. Disbound. Engraved.
Violino primo: [i] (title), 2-15, [i] (blank) pp.
Violino secondo: 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] (blank), 2-13, [i] (blank) pp.
Violoncello: 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] (blank), 2-13, [i] (blank) pp.
With "no V." in contemporary manuscript to upper outer corner of title of violino primo part.
Slightly worn; uniform light browning; occasional small stains and foxing.
Second edition. Gérard 77-82 (pp. 78, 81, 82, 84, 85, and 87). BUC p. 117. RISM B3057.
"A prolific composer, particularly of chamber music, with a distinctive and highly wrought style, [Boccherini] is the chief representative of Latin instrumental music during the Viennese Classical period." Christian Speck and Stanley Sadie in Grove Music Online.
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