The Isle of the Dead, Op.29: Study score

This is another of the useful Petrucci Library series of reprints of out-of-copyright orchestral scores. In this case it has been taken from "the score issued in Moscow by Musgiz sometime after the composer's death". Thus it is in the Soviet house style which is familiar from scores of Shostakovich for example. The layout is clear and practical, without any quirks.Unfortunately, the copy from which this Petrucci score was taken was not the best, because on almost every page there is some fading or breakup of staff lines. The notes are clear enough but it all just looks untidy.The Hawkes pocket score (a reprint of the original Gutheil edition of 1909) is not ideal either. It presents a neater appearance, but the pocket score format means that the notes (this is a piece for large orchestra - triple woodwind, six horns etc) are tiny; and on a few pages (e.g. page 7) there is a faint wavy line through a staff which looks like an inadequately erased conductor's marking. It also maintains the practice at the time of listing the instruments alongside their staffs only on the first page - having them listed on every page, as in the Musgiz/Petrucci, makes life much easier for the score reader.One curious feature of the Musgiz score is that although the instruments are given their Italian names (in the Gutheil they are in German), some instructions remain in German - 'gestopft' (rather than bouché), '1. u 2. Pult', etc. The score was completed in Dresden so Rachmaninoff probably used the German terms.As with other Petrucci scores, this one fills a gap, but a newly notated one would be highly desirable.