[Op. 47, no. 2]. Trois Quatuors Pour 2 Violons, Alto et Violoncelle composés et dédiés à son Excellence Monsieur le Comte Mathieu Wielhorsky... Op. 47. No. 2. Pr. 2 Thlr. [Parts]

Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [PN 9449], 1857. Folio. Disbound. Violino I: [1] (title), 2-13, [i] (blank) pp.; Violino II: 10 pp.; Viola: 10 pp.; Violoncello: 10 pp. Title lithographed; music engraved. Small publisher's handstamp to foot of title.

Comprehensive markup in pencil including fingering, bowing, articulation, and notational corrections to Violino I; single annotation "A tempo" as correction to Violino II, printed in other parts; measure numbers added in pencil in a modern hand throughout.

Some dampstaining, Violino I and II and Viola parts minimally, Violoncello part moderately, to outer edge; some smudges to Violino I I part. First Edition. WorldCat (one copy only in the U.S., at the Morgan Library in New York).

The fifth of Anton Rubinstein's ten string quartets, in B-flat major. (Inventory #: 25947)