Martin Perkins - Early Keyboards, Director, Scholar

English composer and organist John Reading (c.1685–1764) published A Book of new Anthems Containing a Hundred Plates fairly Engraven with a Thorough Bass figur’d for the Organ or Harpsichord in c.1715. The title-page states that the collection was available ‘By Subscription’ only, and in the prefatory Advertisement the composer explains why: ‘‘Tis a very hard, tho usual Case, that when A Person has with great Labour and Study Compleated A Work of this Nature, Others should Pi