Author talk:John Anderson (fl. 1808-1839)
John Anderson
[edit]ANDERSON, John music engravers and mapmakers Edinburgh
North Gray's Close 1808-10
216 Pleasance 1812
19 Picardy Place before 1816
[George] Walker & [John] Anderson 42 High Street 1818-25
John Anderson music printer and engraver 28 High Street 1826-28
Picardy Place address christian name from Bushnell. He also says Anderson was apprenticed to James Johnston.
Edin Dir; Pigot 1820; 1825; 1837 Bush.2; Scottish Notes & Queries November 1928 (Davidson Cook); Johnst 3— [1]
Anderson, John. Was a music engraver and alive in 1839. He served his apprenticeship with James Johnson, and seems to have helped the latter in the arrangement of materials for the later volumes of "The Scots Musical Museum." Upon the death of Johnson in 1811, he appears to have gone into partnership with the widow, and from 1811 to at least 1813, Johnson and Anderson were at Johnson's old shop in the Lawnmarket, and engraving for Edinburgh music sellers. Before 1816 (and also possibly before his partnership with Mrs. Johnson) he, for a short time, seems to have been in business alone, at one time at 19, Picardy Place. In 1816 he was partner with Walker, and Walker and Anderson remained until quite late. It is rather doubtful whether he or a musician of the same name issued the little oblong work "Anderson's Budget of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances" printed for and sold by J. Anderson, Messrs. Brysson, Bank Street," etc. (Glen.) This work is not to be confounded with another Anderson's " Budget," published in Perth.
— Kidson, Frank, British Music Publishers, Printers and Engravers [2] (1900)
[John Anderson's Auldest Daughter] perhaps refers to John Anderson (1737-1808), who published two collections (the first of which he dedicated to the gentlemen of the Musical Society of Greenock) in the late 18th century, although there was also a John Anderson who had a music warehouse in Perth from about 1793 to 1798. Little is known about either. There was also an Anderson who was associated with James Johnson the engraver, afterwards as a partner of the firm of Walker & Anderson, engravers.
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