English First Edition

British Library1
Edition Information

Title: Fantaisie Impromptu // POUR LE PIANO PAR // FR. CHOPIN.

Additional Text: OP. 66. // Ent. Sta. Hall. | Price 3/- // London, Ewer & Co. // Berlin, A, M, Schlesinger | Paris, J. Meissonnier

Publisher: London, Ewer & Co

Date of Publication: [Circa 18562], London

Additional Information

The English First Edition does not present a plate number3 (Green Print). The Blue Print may or may not present a plate number. In all likelihood, it does not.

The image provided by the British Library (Green Print) appears to be modified to remove a pencil inscription in the top right corner. Pencil inscription reads: h.472e.(9)4 It is also possible (though unlikely, that the pencil inscription could have been added at a later date.

The English First Edition was available in Green and Blue.5 The Edition available on fantaisieimpromptu.net is the Green variety. The Green Version is held at the British Library when this information was retrieved.

– Reprints –

What is a reprint? A reprint is the publication of a previously released piece of sheet music. It can be a faithful reproduction or a revised edition with corrections and/or additional notes. Faithful reproductions may be published with the same text, ex: First Edition. However, these are not First Editions, they only carry the name.

The Annotated Catalogue of Chopin’s First Editions. authored by Christophe Grabowski & John Rink, lists 3 additional reprints.

Green Print6
  • The British Library, London, United Kingdom
  • Identification Number: h.472.e.(9.)
Blue Print
  • Bodleian Library, Oxford, United Kingdom
  • Identification Number: Tyson Mus. 364
  1. Image supplied by the British Library from its Ditgital Collections. Copyright: Public Domian, CC1.0 ↩︎
  2. Exact Year of Publication not printed in the Edition, but present in the British Library’s item entry (Circa). ↩︎
  3. A plate number is a unique identifier assigned to a printed piece of sheet music by the publisher. It can typically be found on the bottom of the page or somewhere on a cover or title page. Plate numbers serve to identify specific editions of a musical work. ↩︎
  4. Referring to: h.472e.(9.) (Its identification in the British Library’s Entries.) ↩︎
  5. Annotated Catalogue of Chopin’s First Editions, authored by Christophe Grabowski & John Rink, Pg. 479 ↩︎
  6. At the time of the file retrieval by fantaisieimpromptu.net. ↩︎
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