Grierson, Hugh Boulter Primrose

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1758–1771

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

King's Arms and Two Bibles, Essex Street, 1758–59
King's Arms, Castle Lane, 1759–63
King's Arms, Dame Street, 1763–64
King's Arms, Parliament Street, 1764–71

Details: 

Apprenticed to his father George Grierson (Munter).

He printed a wide range of books as well as some music and became the King's Printer in 1758.

[Dates differ according to sources: Munter gives the dates as above. Flood states that Grierson 'issued a few musical works between 1765 and 1768'. Humphries & Smith and Boydell (Calendar) give the dates as 1758 to 1770.]

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Published

  • Trydell, Rev. John, Two Essays on the Theory and Practice of Music, 1766 (Flood and Humphries & Smith)
    • 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. 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. 163

    Boydell, Brian, A Dublin Musical Calendar 1700–1760 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1988), p. 261

    Munter, Robert, A Dictionary of the Print Trade in Ireland: 1550–1775 (New York: Fordham University Press, 1988), pp. 119–20

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Grierson, Hugh Boulter Primrose’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Last Update: 12-02-2017