id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-16037 Hunter, David Music and the Book Trade from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century. Eds. Robyn Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press; London: British Library, 2008. 218p. alk. paper, $49.95 (ISBN 9781584562450). LC2008-039879. 2009-09-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1301 56 54 Roe claims “the first English auction catalogue devoted to music” was issued for the sale of William Gostling’s collection in 1777, though music historian John Hawkins named five earlier auctions (1714–66) and provided details presumably garnered from catalogs no longer extant. In part, this neglect is due to the separations men- tioned by the editors in their Introduction: the means of production and distribution have become significantly different from those of the ordinary book trade, the use of printed music is different as is the size of the market (being at the same time specialized but global). cache/crl-16037.pdf txt/crl-16037.txt