Leathley, Joseph

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1718–1757

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

Corner of Sycamore Alley, Dame Street

Details: 

Apprenticed to John Hyde (Munter).

Munter records him as 'a successful stationer, publishing a variety of pamphlets, song-books' as well as a wide range of books, often with various combinations of stationers.

He worked in association with Abraham Bradley and Thomas Moore.

Succeeded in business by Anne Leathley (Munter).

Select Product/Work List: 

Published [with Bradley and Moore]

  • The Vocal Miscellany: a Collection of above Four Hundred Celebrated Songs, many of which were never before printed. With the Names of the Tunes prefixed to each Song. The Second Edition corrected, with Additions, 1734 (Dublin Journal)
    • See Also: 

    Bradley, Abraham
    Moore, Thomas

    Source(s): 

    Dublin Journal, 28–31 December 1734, p. 2

    Boydell, Brian, A Dublin Musical Calendar 1700–1760 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1988), pp. 57, 261

    Munter, Robert, A Dictionary of the Print Trade in Ireland: 1550–1775 (New York: Fordham University Press, 1988), pp. 164–65

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

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

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

    Last Update: 12-02-2017