One reason I ordered this was that another reviewer mentioned that it was spiral-bound. The copy I received was not, just a regularly bound Dover edition of piano music. I enjoy playing piano transcriptions of orchestra works. Another reason is that I'm not very adept at reading orchestra scores, and sometimes I like to listen to a recording and follow along with the piano transcription, it's easier for me. A very odd thing is that I can find nowhere in the book and the score who the transcriber was?! I'm guessing it may have been Brahms himself. Only a personal conjecture. But I think there should be a mention.
I found no glaring errors in the music as with some Dover editions, especially the Ragtime collections, which are replete with printing errors (but most errors in those are from the original printing of the Ragtime era). And the notes are easy to read - modern notation and script. High fun level if you're at least an intermediate pianist, but if you don't want to spend hours working on some of the more difficult passages, I'd recommend that you will have reached a rather high proficiency level. If you're really expecting a spiral bound copy I'd contact Amazon first before ordering.
There are some "purists" in the legion of pianists that look down their conservatory-trained nose at piano transcriptions of ensemble works. Snobs. Personally, I feel that the reason they arose long before the age of recorded music was that obviously back then one had to attend a concert or recital to hear orchestral music, and then there was no choice of what was heard, or when. Transcriptions afforded people the opportunity to play and listen to some of these compositions at home, anytime. They have a legitimate function. And I feel there's still a place for them. Over the years I've even done a few recitals featuring transcriptions. And in response to those detractors, I mean, c'mon! Liszt, and even Herr Bach himself wrote transcriptions of orchestra works. One last point, conversely speaking, there are orchestra transcriptions of solo piano works. Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is probably a paramount example. Sorry, but I had to vent a little.
As I mentioned, high fun and entertainment factor.