[Op. 61]. The Music to Shakespere's[!] Midsummernights Dream ... Op. 61. Price 15/-. [Piano four-hands]

  • London: J.J. Ewer & Co, 1844
By MENDELSSOHN, Felix 1809-1847
London: J.J. Ewer & Co, 1844. Folio. Quarter dark blue leather with marbled boards, paper label with titling in manuscript to upper. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [1] (blank), 2-88 pp. Engraved. With additional pagination to numbers 4/5, 7, and 9. Text in English.

Binding quite worn; spine lacking; upper detached. Uniformly browned; title soiled, torn, and repaired. First Edition of this arrangement (the overture is not included). Wehner M13, p. 210. Ward Jones: Catalogue of the Mendelssohn Papers in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Vol. III, 668. Not in Krause.

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