Ignace Pleyel had been Haydn's pupil in Eisenstadt. Early in 1795 he opened the Maison Pleyel in Paris from where he ran a highly successful publishing business. Because the preface lists Haydn's quartets in a thematic catalogue "sanctioned by the author and arranged in the order in which they appeared", and because of Pleyel's long relationship with Haydn, the edition has been involved in discussions of authenticity and the correct order of quartets usually attributed to the composer. The New Grove suggests that the edition was edited by the violinist Baillot. The frontispiece of this edition is illustrated in the New Grove, vol.15, p.7