Beatty, John

Dates Active in Dublin: 

c. 1775–c. 1789

Business Type: 
Bookseller
Music publisher
Address(es): 

Two Blue Boys, 32 Skinner Row, 1775–85
12 Capel Street, 1785–89

Details: 

Munter states that Beatty 'gave up bookselling for the lottery business' after 1789.

[Dates differ according to sources: Munter gives the dates as 1775 to 1831. Pollard gives them as 1775 to 1789. Boydell gives 1776 only.]

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Published

  • The Waterman: or, The First of August. A Ballad Opera, In Two Acts. As Performed At The Theatre-Royal, Crow-Street, with Great Applause. Dublin: Printed by permission of the Company of Booksellers, for John Beatty, No. 32, Skinner Row ..., [1777] (EEBO)
  • The Waterman, or, The First of August. A Ballad Opera, In Two Acts. As It Is Performed At The Theatre-Royal, Hay-Market. Dublin, Printed for J. Beatty, No. 12, Capel Street. MDCCLXXXV, [1785] (EEBO)
    • Source(s): 

    'The Waterman' [1777] in Early English Books Online <http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=nuim&tabID=T001&docId=CW3307393537&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE> [accessed 31 October 2013]

    'The Waterman' [1785] in Early English Books Online <http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=nuim&tabID=T001&docId=CW3308632715&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE; [accessed 31 October 2013]

    Munter, Robert, A Dictionary of the Print Trade in Ireland: 1550–1775 (New York: Fordham University Press, 1988), p. 24

    Pollard, M., A Dictionary of Members of the Dublin Book Trade 1550–1800: Based on the Records of the Guild of St Luke the Evangelist Dublin (London: Bibliographical Society, 2000), p. 27

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

    Last Update: 12-02-2017