Music and the book trade
Subtitle: from the sixteenth to the twentieth century
By: edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote.
Contributors: Myers, Robin.; Harris, Michael, 1938-; Mandelbrote, Giles.
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press; Oak Knoll Press and The British Library
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Castle, DE
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781584562450
Subjects: Music publishing -- History; Book industries and trade -- History
Description: "Study of book history focused on the relationship between printed music and other forms of print. Part of Publishing Pathways series. Collection of 8 essays that look at the production, publication, and distribution of printed music from the 16th to the 20th century in the western world"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Music printing and the book trade in late-sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Iberia / Iain Fenlon; title: Turning a new leaf : William Byrd, the East music-publishing firm and the Jacobean succession / Jeremy L. Smith; title: The Playfords and the Purcells / Richard Luckett; title: John Walsh and his Handel editions / Donald Burrows; title: The sale catalogue of Carl Friedrich Abel (1787) / Stephen Roe; title: Artaria plate numbers and the publication process, 1778-87 / Rupert Ridgewell