Jones, William

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Dates Active in Dublin: 

c. 1780 – c.1812

Business Type: 
Music printer
Printer
Address(es): 

18 Green Street, 1780
75 Thomas Street, 1812

Details: 

Moulden identifies Jones as a ballad printer.

In 1812, he bought 'standing forms of ballads' from the effects of Bartholomew Corcoran (iii).

Select Product/Work List: 

Printed (as listed in Humphries & Smith)

  • The Double Mistake, c. 1780 [engraved by Graham Stewart]
  • The Merry Christ'ning, c. 1780 [engraved by Graham Stewart]
    • See Also: 

    Corcoran, Bartholomew (iii)
    Stewart, Graham

    Source(s): 

    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. 197

    Moulden, John, 'Popular Songs', 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. 602–611 (pp. 604, 606)

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

    Last Update: 17-05-2018