To grangerize is a verb not much used by musicologists. As defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, it refers to that process by which an existing book is made larger—and sometimes vastly so—by the binding into it of various prints, photographs, letters, maps and other documents chosen to provide extra illustrations for the parent volume. Given that this nearly always involves the cannibalization of certain other books en route, the art of grangerizing is not something of which all true lovers of books readily approve, yet there have been a number of works so produced whose final state is far and away more interesting and important than that of the original. One such is the subject of the present article.

In a recent article, I surveyed the British music holdings of the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Hamburg, prior to the Second World War; details of which derive from the nineteenth-century manuscript catalogue compiled by Arrey von Dommer (1828–1905)—see ‘The Music Collection of the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Hamburg: A Survey of its British Holdings Prior to the Second World War’, RMA Research Chronicle, 30 (1997), 1–138. In addition, I also discussed the history of the collection and commented on its losses and recoveries. I have recently uncovered further British references, and it is with these that I am concerned here.