The reference books listed here are a representative sample of material available on the open shelves of the Rare Books & Music Reading Room.
| Bernstein, Jane A. | Music printing in Renaissance Venice: the Scotto Press 1539-1572 (New York, Oxford, 1998). |
| Cooper, Victoria L. | The house of Novello : practice and policy of a Victorian music publisher, 1829-1866 (Aldershot, 2003). |
| Devriès, A. & Lesure, F. | Dictionnaire des éditeurs de musique français - 1820 (Geneve, 1979); 1820-1914 (Geneve, 1988). 3 vols. |
| Duggan, Mary Kay | Italian music incunabula: printers and type (Berkeley, 1992). |
| Hopkinson, Cecil | A dictionary of Parisian music publishers, 1700-1950 (London, 1954). |
| Humphries, C. & Smith, W. C. | Music publishing in the British Isles from the beginning until the middle of the 19th century (2nd ed., with supplement, Oxford, 1970). |
| International ISMN Agency | Music publishers' international ISMN directory (2nd ed., 1998/99, München, 1998). |
| Kassler, Michael (ed.) | Music entries at Stationers' Hall, 1710-1818 (Aldershot, 2004). |
| Krummel, D.W. | English music printing 1553-1700 (London, 1975). |
| Krummel, D. W. & Sadie, S. (eds.) | Music printing and publishing (Basingstoke, 1990). |
| Lawford-Hinrichsen, Irene | Music publishing and patronage : C. F. Peters: 1800 to the Holocaust (Kenton, 2000). |
| Lewis, Mary S. | Antonio Gardano, Venetian music printer 1538-1569: a descriptive bibliography and historical study (New York, 1988- ). 4 vols. |
| Music Publishers' Association | The directory of music publishers (London, [latest ed.]). |
| Neighbour, O.W. & Tyson, A. | English music publishers' plate numbers in the first half of the nineteenth century (London, 1965). |
| Smith, Jeremy L. | Thomas East and music publishing in Renaissance England (Oxford, 2003). |
| Steele, Robert | The earliest English music printing: a description and bibliography of English printed music to the close of the sixteenth century. Reprinted with corrections (Meisenheim. 1965). |
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