This is the first critical edition of Napoléon Coste's 25 Études de genre which has prepared from the correct source, his 1880 revised edition. It is also the first edition from this source to include a comprehensive critical commentary and apparatus.

Edited by Michael Macmeeken, it contains copious historical notes and documents and offers different readings and different versions of some of the Études.

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