Hard cover: sides 1, 4: red wine color, blank; sides 2, 3: white, blank., cover page lithographed, blank , TP [1] lithographed, offset print [2] [musical incipits], p. 3-104 offset print [musical text], [105] blank, [106] offset print [publisher's advertisment], [stamp on the cover page and page number five:] Instytut Fryderyka Chopina, [Stamp on the second and the last page:] NARODOWY INSTYTUT FRYDERYKA CHOPINA | BIBLIOTEKA, [Pencil inscriptions at the top of the cover page:] 2,5. 6 7 8, 20, 24 | 0 22, [Pencil inscriptions at the bottom of the cover page - unreadable.]
EDITION PETERS | No. 1905, Page [2]: Table of Contents., Plate number p. 2-82: 9056, left corner: Edition Peters., TP: [at right, top corner] stamp „Instytut Fryderyka Chopina" (former name of the institution) with shelfmark "300" added by hand
Page [1]: title for entire collection of Etudes in decorative orange viniette., Page 2: Table of Contents in two columns., Engraved text: p. 3-121., Footline, U. E. 347. 1582: p. 2-11, 16-21, 26-38, 39 [faded, illegible], 40-42, 43 [faded, illegible], 44-52, 67-121.; footline, U. E. 347. 831. 1582: p. 12-15, 22-25, 53-66., Title page, at the top: signature "S.Polianoff"; stamp „Instytut Fryderyka Chopina" (former name of the institution) with shelfmark added by hand., Page [122]: blank.; round stamp „Instytut Fryderyka Chopina" (former name of the institution)., Wrapper: one sheet only, side [1]: ● UNIVERSAL-EDITION ● | N|o 347 | CHOPIN | ETÜDEN | ETUDES [space] STUDIES | PIANO SOLO | RAOUL PUGNO ; side [2]: blank., Source after renovation, bound with a stiff burgundy cover [blank] added by bookbinder. Page 121/122: cut off and torn at the bottom, last page [122]: stamp: "ODKWASZONE - 2008".
Edition in twelve volumes with plate number 6218 for Präludien und Rondos., Title page [1]: missing., Page [2, probaby]: Table of Contents: missing., Pages [3-8, engraved text]: missing., Engraved text: p. 9-88., Last pages [89-106, engraved text]: missing.
EDITION PETERS | Nr. 1904, Pages [II-III]: Chopin's biography in German, English and French by Dr. Leopold Schmidt., Page [2]: Table of Contents., Plate number p. 2-96: 9025, left corner: Edition Peters., Nocturnes no. 1-19., TP: [at right, top corner] stamp „Instytut Fryderyka Chopina" (former name of the institution) with shelfmark "304" added by hand
EDITION PETERS | Nr. 1909, Page [2]: Table of Contents., Plate number p. 2-100: 9899, left corner: Edition Peters., TP: [at right, top corner] stamp „Instytut Fryderyka Chopina" (former name of the institution) with shelfmark "305" added by hand