This facsimile edition of the manuscript of Johannes Brahms’s Fantasies op. 116, nos. 1╩7 for piano solo is bound in red linen. The five-colour print reproduces the autograph, which was acquired in 1926 by the present-day Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl-von-Ossietzky in Hamburg, and is housed in the Brahms Archive. The facsimile is not only valuable owing to its high-quality workmanship, but also due to its detailed, scholarly afterword by the editor Bernhard Stockmann. In 1997, this fac