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Introduction
UNTIL his recent retirement Dr Roderick
Cannon (BSc, DPhil, DSc) was a Reader in Chemistry at
the University of East Anglia, Norwich and has written many books on the
subject. He is also a piper and has spent many thousands of hours researching
and writing a number of books about the history of bagpipes and its music. One
of the more notable is A Bibliography of Bagpipe Music which he started
researching in 1961 and over the next thirteen years visited many libraries and
private collections in United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Poland and the
United States of America. John Donald Publishers Ltd published the book in 1980
and it immediately became recognised amongst collectors as their ‘Bible’; at
last they had detailed knowledge of what was out there. The accuracy of the
information in this book is a credit to the author. Even now with the advantage
of hindsight there are few errors. The biggest problem for Cannon was locating
all editions of all books and even now over thirty years later there are still
many to be found... [more]
Arrangement of Material
DIFFERENT editions of a book are distinguished by Roman numerals in bold type, I, II, etc, and they are so referred to in the text, as for example, 'edition III', not 'the 1908 edition'. For each edition the description follows a uniform plan in six sections as follows: Title; Imprint; Other publication data; Pagination and contents; Location and description of individual copies; Discussion... [more]
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