Manwaring, Mrs. William

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1763–1788

Business Type: 
Music printer
Music publisher
Music seller
Musical instrument seller: unspecified
Address(es): 

Corelli's Head, College Green

Details: 

Succeeded the business of her husband William Manwaring on his death in 1763.

An imprint on a score of the fourth part of Love in a Village, c. 1763/4 (apparently an exact copy of Walsh's London edition of 1762), also mentions 'Alice Murray, sister to the late William Manwaring, at the music shop in College Green'.

[Dates differ according to sources: Dix, Flood and Munter give the dates from 1763 to 1765 but Boydell (Card Index) gives the dates from 1763 to 1788.]

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Published

  • Monthly Masque, [revived from] c. 1763–65 (Munter)
    • See Also: 

    Manwaring, William
    Murray, Alice

    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. 102)

    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. 27)

    Boydell, Brian, A Dublin Musical Calendar 1700–1760 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1988), p. 259

    Munter, Robert, A Dictionary of the Print Trade in Ireland: 1550–1775 (New York: Fordham University Press, 1988), p. 180

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Manwaring, William (1)’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

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

    Last Update: 12-02-2017