Cooke, Bartholomew

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1784–1797 (1798?)

Business Type: 
Music seller
Musical instrument maker: unspecified
Musical instrument seller: piano
Musical instrument seller: unspecified
Musical instrument seller: violin
Music publisher
Address(es): 

14 Eustace Street, 1784–86
4 Sackville Street, 1794–98

Details: 

Also known as Bartlett Cooke.

Listed in the Dublin Directories as a 'professor of music' (1784–86), 'music seller' (1795) and 'musical instrument maker' (from 1796). Advertised in the newspapers as being a 'music shop and publisher' (cited in Kerry). He advertised in the Freeman's Journal on 17 July 1794 the opening of a 'new music shop' at 4 Sackville Street selling pianos, violins and music.

Succeeded in business by George Gough on 30 September 1797 (Pollard).

[Dates differ according to sources: Hogan, Humphries & Smith and McHale give the dates as c. 1794 to 1798 but Pollard gives the dates as before 1794 to 1797. Kerry gives the dates as 1784 to 1798.]

Select Product/Work List: 

Published (as listed in Pollard)

  • Logier, I.B., Sett of Quick and Slow Marches, Troops, &c
  • 'Viotti’s Concerto for the piano forte, Mrs Parker’s new dances, and other', 26 December 1794
  • Holden, Smollet, Collection of Quick and Slow marches, after 3 February 1795
  • 'Barthelemon’s Harp tutor, Mr Dempsy’s Dances for 1795', 27 February 1795
  • 'Haydn’s Second set of canzonetts', 31 March 1796
  • 'Hooke’s Sonatas, with variations to Irish airs', 7 January 1797
  • 'Dr Stevenson’s Songs and duets', 1 February 1797

    • Sold (as listed in Pollard)

  • 'Dr Stevenson’s 12 songs, and 7 others'
  • 'Imported piano fortes and "has the last importation" of French music and harps', 16 July 1794
    • See Also: 

    Gough, George

    Source(s): 

    Freeman's Journal, 17 July 1794, p. 1

    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. 28)

    Teahan, John, 'A List of Irish Instrument Makers', The Galpin Society Journal, 16 (May 1963), 28–32 (p. 28)

    Hogan, Ita Margaret, Anglo-Irish Music 1780–1830 (Cork: Cork University Press, 1966), p. 101

    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. 114

    Kerry, Frances P., 'The Music Scene in Dublin During the Late Eighteenth Century (1790–1800)' (unpublished masters thesis, St Patrick's College, Maynooth, 1994), p. 31

    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. 117

    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. 597)

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Cooke, Bartlett', Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

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

    Last Update: 17-05-2018