Wurlitzer-Bruck announces the publication of a collection of music of the Bach Family, including 20 hard-to-find early editions of J.S., C.P.E. and J.C. Bach, as well as 16 handsome J.S. Bach facsimiles.

Among the early editions are first editions of the St. John and St. Matthew Passions and bound volumes of first editions of C.P.E. Bach’s keyboard sonatas from the 1760s and 1770s.

Also in the collection are historic early 19th-century editions, including volumes from the Zurich publisher Hans Georg Nägeli’s series Musikalische Kunstwerke im Strengen Style von J.S. Bach u. andern Meistern (Art of Fugue, Violin Sonatas).

Nine of the twenty early editions were formerly in the collection of Ludwig Landsberg (1807-58), who amassed a famous and extensive collection of early music and music literature. Several of these are in their original early 19th-century vellum bindings.

Most of the the editions are in very good to fine condition while the facsimiles vary from very good to as new.