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This chapter is devoted principally to the Oxford music copyists and their role in the city's music making. The serious documentary record of Oxford's concert life may be said to have begun in 1753, five years after the opening of the Holywell Music Room, with the first publication of Jackson's Oxford Journal. The 'club' referred to was presumably that which met at the King's Head, the regular meeting-place of the Oxford musical society until the opening of the Holywell Music Room. The chapter is concerned with the other side of the process – the selection and acquisition of music by the publishers themselves. The problematic nature of the endeavour may be one of the reasons for the bankruptcy of so many eighteenth-century music publishers, including John Welcker; Longman & Broderip; Corri, Dussek & Co., and William Napier – though few of them seem to have been out of business for long.
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