Rhames, Aaron

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1703–1734

Business Type: 
Music printer
Address(es): 

Three Keys, Nicholas Street, 1703–09
The Back of Dick's Coffee House, Skinner Row, 1709–16?
Opposite the Pyed Horse, or Tillotson's Head, Capel Street, 1719?–34

Details: 

Father of Benjamin Rhames.

Apprenticed to John Ray.

Aaron Rhames was a leading stationer of his day. He printed sheet music from 1729 to 1732 (Munter).

Apprentice: Thomas Moore.

His death notice in the Dublin Journal stated that he was 'a very eminent Printer, who was the first Person that brought the excellent and useful Act of Printing to any Perfection in this Kingdom.'

Succeeded in business by his widow Margaret Rhames.

Select Product/Work List: 

Printed

  • 'A metrical Psalter', 1718 (Munter)
    • See Also: 

    Moore, Thomas
    Rhames, Benjamin
    Rhames, Margaret

    Source(s): 

    Dublin Journal, 10–14 December 1734, p. 2

    Dublin Evening Post, 10–14 December 1738, p. 4

    Munter, Robert, A Dictionary of the Print Trade in Ireland: 1550–1775 (New York: Fordham University Press, 1988), p. 231

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

    McHale, Maria, 'Music', in The Irish Book in English 1800–1891, ed. by James H. Murphy, The Oxford History of the Irish Book, IV (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 595–601 (p. 596)

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Rhames, Benjamin (2)’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Last Update: 20-05-2021