Scottish Music Publishers - Who Did What, When?

Anyone studying the history of Scottish music will at some stage need to find out who published what, and when. 

There is a vast amount of information out there!  The National Library of Scotland contains many priceless original music books, but they also actively curate and compile useful indexes to help you find accurate historical information.

The Scottish Book Trade Index is online, and includes music publishers as well as the people who published books:-

http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/scottish-book-trade-index

Watch this space for more helpful suggestions of ways to find out more about Scottish music.

Scottish Book Trade Index

The Scottish Book Trade Index is a listing maintained by the National Library of Scotland. Essential for historians of the printed word or music, here's how the database is introduced online:-

The Scottish Book Trade Index lists the names, trades and addresses of people involved in printing in Scotland up to 1850. It covers:


•Printers
•Publishers
•Booksellers
•Bookbinders
•Printmakers
•Stationers
•Papermakers.
This online resource has been compiled using the imprints of books and other secondary sources (see the list of references). The Library's holdings of Scottish book trade archives are very strong. For details of these, contact Manuscript Collections.


The Scottish Book Trade Index is very much a work in progress. [...] You can find out more details about the Scottish Book Trade Index in the introduction.


Download the latest version of the Scottish Book Trade Index:


•SBTI A-M (PDF: 1,045 pages; 3.2 MB) Listings A-M
•SBTI N-Z (PDF: 505 pages; 1.6 MB) Listings N-Z