Before establishing the Claimed From Stationers’ Hall network, I was a postdoctoral researcher on the Bass Culture project, which looked at Scottish fiddle tune collections largely from the Georgian era. In that context, I read a paper at Musica Scotica in Spring 2014, about a couple of London-published music collections. It has finally been published in Scottish Music Review Vol.5 (2019), 75-87, this week.
Sometimes when we look back at earlier work, we wonder if we’d have written it differently today, but I’m still pretty happy with this article. If anything, I think it justifies my claim that the history of this kind of collection does indeed deserve to count as “book history”, even if it is music rather than literature. So, here it is for your enjoyment:-
Karen McAulay, Musicologist 