Walker, Thomas

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1770–c. 1788

Business Type: 
Bookbinder
Music publisher
Music seller
Address(es): 

Cicero's Head, Dame Street
79 Dame Street

Details: 

Apprentice to John Exshaw.

It is not certain to what extent (if any) Thomas Walker may be identified with the 'Walker & Lee' partnership of c. 1781 listed in Hogan.

Succeeded in business by his son in 1788 (Munter).

[Dates and addresses differ according to sources: Humphries & Smith give it as 79 Dame Street but Munter gives it as Cicero's Head Dame Street. Humphries & Smith give the dates as c. 1778 to 1796 but Munter states that he was succeeded by his son in 1788.]

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Published

The Hibernian Magazine, or Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge (1771–85) [continued as] Walker's Hibernian Magazine (1786–1811). Featured music printing including (as listed in Lawrence):
Gaudry, Richard, Hibernia's Advice to the Fair, 1779
The Daughters of this Aged Stream We Are, for two guitars, February 1779
Gaudry, Richard, Alla Stagion Novella (The son-in-law), 1781
A Favourite Duett, for two guitars, c. 1873
A Favourite Lesson, for two guitars
How Shall We Mortals, a favourite duet for two guitars

  • 'Aileen Aroon made a Duett, As Introduc'd by Miss Catley and Miss Wewitzer in the Beggar's Opera', c. 1780 (Humphries & Smith)
  • 'Woe's my Heart that we Shou'd Sunder', c. 1780 (Humphries & Smith)
  • Come Come Live with Me [performed in the Rotunda]
    • See Also: 

    Exshaw, John
    Walker & Lee

    Source(s): 

    Flood, W.H. Grattan, ‘Dublin Music Printing from 1750 to 1790’, The Bibliographical Society of Ireland: Short Papers, 2.5 (1923), 101–06 (p. 105)

    Hogan, Ita Margaret, Anglo-Irish Music 1780–1830 (Cork: Cork University Press, 1966), p. 107

    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. 387

    Munter, Robert, A Dictionary of the Print Trade in Ireland: 1550–1775 (New York: Fordham University Press, 1988), p. 280

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

    Lawrence, Thomas, ‘The History of the Guitar in Ireland 1760-1866’, 2 vols (unpublished doctoral thesis, University College Dublin, 1999), I, pp. 36, 40

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

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

    Last Update: 20-05-2021