Bonham, George

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1774–1805

Business Type: 
Bookseller
Music engraver
Music printer
Music publisher
Address(es): 

Horace's Head, William Street, 1774
37, William Street, 1774–75
42 Dame Street, opposite Fowne's Court, 1776–84
68 South Great George's Street, 1785–1805

Details: 

Apprentice to George Exshaw.

In 1775 Bonham purchased Samuel Powell's shop from his daughter Sarah.

Bonham apparently published music (Hogan) and printed music from 1784 to 1794 (Flood). He was printer to the Royal Irish Academy from 1787 to 1802 (Pollard) and engraved music plates for the Royal Irish Academy Transactions in the 1790s (Munter).

[Dates differ according to sources: the Dublin Directories, Hogan and Humphries & Smith give the dates as c. 1778 to 1805. Munter and Pollard give them as 1774 to 1802.]

Select Product/Work List: 

Printed

  • Mc.Vity, John, Select Psalm and Hymn Tunes, adapted to the use of public congregations and private families, 1787 [2nd edn] (Humphries and Smith)
    • See Also: 

    Powell, Samuel

    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. 104

    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. 79

    Munter, Robert, A Dictionary of the Print Trade in Ireland: 1550–1775 (New York: Fordham University Press, 1988), 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), pp. 41–42

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

    Last Update: 12-02-2017