Claimed from Stationer’s Hall – Update

There’s a Scottish saying, “What goes around, comes around”. I didn’t realise, when we selected the image from Challoner’s New Guida di Musica for this University of St Andrews Echoes from the Vault blogpost, that I would encounter it again in a later stage of my research! Whilst tweeting for the new AHRC-funded music network, Claimed from Stationers’ Hall, I idly looked to see what was registered “on this day” a couple of hundred years ago. Stretching a point slightly, I chanced upon – yes, Challoner’s piano instructor, for that’s what it actually is – registered at Stationers’ Hall on 24 September 1812. Checking my records further, I learned that the volume containing it was actually bound – and borrowed – within three months’ of registration, and clocked up 14 loans between 1812 and 1849. If you really want to, you can even “play like it was 1812” because it has been digitised at Baylor University:- http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm/ref/collection/fa-spnc/id/149327