1 See my MGG article, ‘Playford'. Mr E.J. Nicol, who collaborated in much of my own Playford work, was enabled to examine and photograph relevant records more than 15 years ago.Google Scholar

2 See Registers of Indenture, etc., of The Worshipful Company of Stationers (original documents).Google Scholar

3 Playford entitles this list of music books A Catalogue, not an ‘advertisement', and separates it from the advertisement of his publications printed below. He also accords it an imprint.Google Scholar

4 See my recension of The English Dancing-Master, 1651 (Schott, 1957) and the article in Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, 1943, containing the quotation from a letter from the late Arundell Esdaile on idiosyncrasies of redating his collection of tracts by George Thomason, The English Dancing-Master included; also the list of works in the MGG article already cited.Google Scholar

5 It is necessary here to have some acquaintance with the powers of the Stationers’ Company, as guardians against sedition, with the restrictions in the granting of printing licences, and with the acquisition of printing-businesses and copyrights by purchase, bequest or marriage with an inheriting widow.Google Scholar