From: Gabriel Ellsworth <[email protected]>
By the way, are there any good (enjoyable, informative) books out there about the history of music engraving — or a snapshot of what it was like to work for, e.g., Bärenreiter as a master engraver circa the 1960s? Ross's 1970 book The Art of Music Engraving and Processing gives quite a detailed account of the mechanics of engraving, describing the tools in detail, and including some history. It also has a decent bibliography of older books covering the same subject and around it; a few of these are explicitly historical: Austin, Ernest - The Story of Music Printing (London, Lowe and Brydone Printers Ltd) King, A. Hyatt - Four Hundred Years of Music Printing (London, British Museum, 1964) Pictorial History of Music Printing (Elkhart, Indiana, H. and A. Selmer Inc) Paul
