String Quartets Op. 71 & 74

The Complete Quartets Of Joseph Haydn" is a study on which the series "Complete Quartets" by the Aeolian String Quartet is based. This box contains Volume 9. Box set issued with a laminated front cover with lamination overlapping the right-hand flipback of box back. Includes a monochrome 16-page 12"x12" booklet. Each LP comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. [From back cover] The Decca Record Company Limited Argo Division, 115 Fulham Road, London, SW3 6RR (Stereo / Mono playback information) Made in England. [Spine string] Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 71 & 74 Vol. 9 Argo Stereo HDNL 49-51 [From labels] Made in England • The Decca Record Co. Ltd. ℗ 1973 Argo Record Co [From booklet] {Page 2} Box Top: The Hanover Square Rooms, London, Watercolour drawing by T.H. Shepherd, 1931. British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings Front cover (booklet; also booklet back cover): Haydn in 1785. Silhouette engraved by Hieronymous Löschenkohl {Page 3} Volume 9 Haydn String Quartets The 'Salomon Quartets of 1793, dedicated to Count Anton Apponyi Opus 71 & Opus 74 {Page 4} Haydn. Oil painting by Johann Carl Rösler, dated 1799. {Pages 8-15} The Salomon Quartets Op. 71 & 74 by H. C. Robbins Landon Buggiano Castello (Pistoia), Easter 1973. © 1973, The Decca Record Company Limited, London. ℗ 1973, Argo Record Company. The Decca Record Company Limited Argo Division, 115 Fulham Road, London, SW3 6RR Printed in London by Senol Printing Limited. (Stereo / Mono playback information) {Page 8} Johann Elssler. Drawing. Burgenlandisches Landesmuseum. (Haydn-Haus, Eisenstadt). {Page 9} Johann Peter Salomon. Engraving by Georg Sigismund Facius after Thomas Hardy, Vienna, Mus. d. Stadt. {Page 10} View of London from the south. Engraving by Daniel Lerpiniere after George Robertson, 1779, Vienna, ÖNB, Cartographic Collection. {Page 12} View of Bath. Engraving, London, British Museum. {Page 13} Buckingham House, now Palace. Engraving by Taylor, London, Mansell Collection. [Tracklist] The booklet and labels have some differences for the tracklist. Where the labels have '1st Mov.', '2nd Mov.', '3rd Mov.' and '4th Mov.', the booklet has '1.', '2.', '3.' and '4.' respectively. Other noted differences occur in the description for tracks A3, B3, B4, C3 to E1, E3, F1 and F3. The booklet has been used. [Runouts] Runouts are stamped. The matrix string in the runouts (ZRG-38xx-xx), the last character of which identifies mastering engineer (G or A), is stamped horizontally at 6 o'clock. The next grouping of 1 or 2 alphas identifies the Decca stamper number and is located at 3 o'clock. The final grouping of 1 or 2 characters identifies the numerical mother and is located at 9 o'clock.