Did you know...

  • that Alan Golder, an American burglar who specialized in stealing jewelry from mansions, was arrested in Antwerp, Belgium in December 2006?
  • that from 1787 to 1793, American music printer John Aitken () was the only publisher of sheet music in the United States?
  • that English printer John Wolfe's () business practices so incensed his contemporaries, they compared him to Machiavelli?
  • that English printer John Day raided the printing premises of his son, Richard Day (), after the latter had pirated his father's works and illicitly published his own versions?
  • that many street cries, the short lyrical calls of merchants hawking their products and services, have been cataloged and incorporated into larger musical works?
  • that in 1599, English bookseller William Barley () helped publish Anthony Holborne's Pavans, Galliards, Almains, the first work of music for instruments rather than voices to be printed in England?

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