J.-M. Leclair. Sonatas for violin, books 1-3, 1738 to after 1743

Jean-Marie Leclair

Three editions of his violin sonatas

Premier livre de sonates à violon seul avec la basse continue [score], Paris: Boivin, 1723 (privilege: 1738), 2 leaves, 81, [1] pages

Second livre de sonates pour le violon et pour la flûte traversière avec la basse continue [score], Paris: L'Auteur, Boivin, Le Clerc, [after 1743,] 1 leaf, 85, [1] pages, privilege dated 1738

2 volumes in one, folio (36.8 x 26.3cm), engraved throughout, ownership inscription to front free endpaper ("J.R. Lunn"), eighteenth-century calf-backed marbled boards, rebacked, retaining original spine, some browning, dust-staining to title and privilege of second volume, very small tear to outer margin of title of second volume

Troisième livre de sonates à violon seul avec la basse continue...Oeuvre V [score], Paris: L'auteur, La V.^e Boivin, Le Clerc, [privilege: 1738,] 1 leaf, 82, [1] pages, folio (38.5 x 28cm), engraved throughout, ownership inscription to title and last page of music, priced at "12^tt", armorial bookplate to front pastedown ("Alex Greg Vichet Praeses Galliarum Questor Monspelliensis"), contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, retaining most of original spine

LITERATURE

RISM L 1307, L 1310 ('2. Ausgabe'), L 1320 ('1. Auflage')