I was 16 when I bought my copy of Penguin (in 1971). I have to say that I'll be disappointed if the market for the new edition is restricted to people around my own age, though obviously a fair proportion of initial sales are likely to be replacements and "upgrades", and I expect the lady at EFDSS has mostly been taking orders of that kind; it's a revision, after all, not a new book (though it is a lot more detailed than the original) and it will sell, to begin with, largely on the strength of its history.

I do very much hope that younger people, to whom the material may not be familiar except through recorded arrangements of it, will gain something worthwhile from going back a little closer to the sources; and that this edition will also sell on its own merits as well as on those of its predecessor. That is in the hands of fate, I suppose. We'll just have to see.