CLI - Copy by Linowski
Copy performed by Józef Linowski based on the working autograph, including the original version of the piece.
Ap - Presentation autograph
Fair score of a non-final version.
FE - French edition
Maurice Schlesinger, Paris, plate number M S 1399:
FEcor – Proof copy with detailed corrections by Chopin,
FE1 – First French edition, VI 1833,
FE2 – Corrected impression of FE1, probably soon afterwards.
Henry Lemoine, Paris, from XII 1842, plate number 2775. HL.:
FE3 = FE2 with changed cover and plate number.
Three pupil's copies, without annotations in this Etude:
FED – FE3 copy belonging to Camille O'Méara-Dubois,
FEJ – FE3 copy belonging to Ludwika Jędrzejewicz,
FES – FE2 copy belonging to Jane Stirling.
GE - German edition
Fr. Kistner, Leipzig, plate number 1018.
GE1 – First German edition, VIII 1833,
GE1a – Corrected impression of GE1, 1834-1840,
GE2 – Second German edition, after 1840,
GE3 – Third German edition, ca. 1850,
GE4 – Fourth German edition, additional plate number 2962, ca. 1865,
GE5 – Fifth German edition.
