Shade, Henry L.

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1826–after 1865

Business Type: 
Music publisher
Music seller
Musical instrument seller: guitar
Address(es): 

1 Parliament Street, 1826–after 1850
Cheap Music Warehouse, 1 Parliament Street, c. 1842
15 French Street, 1844 [second premises]
Shade's Musical Warehouse, 32 Westmoreland Street, 1865

Details: 

Acted as an agent for George Shade of London in 1826 and 1827 [misspelt Snade in some editions of the Dublin Directories].

[Details differ according to sources: Humphries & Smith and Hogan give the dates as c. 1828 to 1840. The Freeman's Journal refers to Shade at Westmoreland Street in 1865. The Dublin Directories give the dates of 1826 and 1827 in reference to George Shade of London which Humphries & Smith state was an agency 'kept by Henry L. Shade'. Lawrence gives the Cheapmusic [sic] Warehouse, 1 Parliament Street address in 1842.]

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  • 'To be sold, a very superior toned guitar, by the above maker [Panormo], left for sale at Shade's Cheapmusic [sic] Warehouse, 1 Parliament Street', 21 April 1842 (Lawrence, citing Saunder's News-Letter)
    • Source(s): 

    Dublin Directories

    Freeman's Journal, 15 April 1865, p. 1

    Hogan, Ita Margaret, Anglo-Irish Music 1780–1830 (Cork: Cork University Press, 1966), p. 103

    Humphries, Charles and William C. Smith, Music Publishing in the British Isles, from the Beginning until the Middle of the Nineteenth Century; a Dictionary of Engravers, Printers, Publishers, and Music Sellers (London: Oxford University Press, 1970), p. 289

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

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

    Last Update: 16-03-2017