Exshaw, Edward

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1733–1748

Business Type: 
Bookseller
Music printer
Publisher
Address(es): 

The Bible, on the Blind Quay, near Cork Hill, 1733–37
The Bible, on Cork Hill, over against the old Exchange, or, the Bible, one door above Copper Alley, near Cork Hill, 1737–48
Grafton Street

Details: 

Husband of Sarah Exshaw and father of John Exshaw.

Apprentice to George Ewing (Munter).

He took his son into partnership in 1748 (Munter).

Succeeded in business by his son and widow on his death in 1748, trading as 'S. & J. Exshaw'.

[Dates and addresses differ according to sources: Berry gives the Bible, Cork Hill prior to 1760 and erroneously gives Ed. Exshaw instead of John Exshaw at the Bible, Dame Street in 1760. Dix gives the dates erroneously as 1743 to 1793. Boydell (Calendar) also gives the dates erroneously as 1743 to 1793 and is the only source to provide the Grafton Street address. Munter states that Exshaw died in 1748. It is probable that the date of 1794 came from the last issue of the London Magazine which he began publishing in 1743, but which continued after his death.]

Select Product/Work List: 

Published

  • Exshaw's London Magazine (1741–94) [included printed music, listed in Lawrence and Kennedy]
    • See Also: 

    Ewing, George
    Exshaw, John
    Exshaw, S. & J.

    Source(s): 

    Dublin Directories

    Berry, Henry F., 'House and Shop Signs in Dublin in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries', The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, 5th ser., 40.2 (30 June 1910), 81–98 (p. 88)

    Lawrence, W.J., 'Eighteenth-Century Magazine Music', The Musical Antiquary, 3 (October 1911), 18–39

    Flood, W.H. Grattan, 'Dublin Music Printing from 1685 to 1750', The Bibliographical Society of Ireland: Short Papers, 2.1 (1921), 7–12 (p. 12)

    Dix, E.R. McC., ‘Some Dublin Music Printers and Music Sellers of the Eighteenth Century’, The Irish Book Lover, 18.1 (January/February 1930), 26–28 (p. 27)

    Kennedy, Josepha, 'An Index to the Songs in The London Magazine (1732–1783)', The Music Review, 46 (1985), 83–92

    Boydell, Brian, A Dublin Musical Calendar 1700–1760 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1988), p. 261

    Munter, Robert, A Dictionary of the Print Trade in Ireland: 1550–1775 (New York: Fordham University Press, 1988), p. 92

    Boydell, Barra, 'The Development of the Dublin Music Print Trade to 1800', Long Room (1996), pp.25-33 (p. 31)

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Exshaw, Edward’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Last Update: 20-05-2021