Gerald Parker

L`Édition originale de cet oeuvre important, de valeur perpétuelle = First Edition, Still Significant, of a Pathbreaking Work, 3 juin 2012

Eric T. Bryant, a charming man and an outstanding librarian, wrote two editions of his wonderfully useful and thoughtful guide to the profession of music librarianship. Prior to the earlier (1959) edition of Bryant`s own study, was the initial edition (also still recommendable) of "Music Libraries" by Lionel Roy McColvin and Harold Reeves, also destined to appear in two editions (firstly in 1937, then revised by Jack Dove for publication anew in 1965). Despite the usually opposite tendency among monographs of this sort for later editions to displace the earlier ones that had been in use, Bryant`s original 1959 edition of his own work remains decidedly as useful as the later edition. It is… Lire la suite