Brocas, John

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1696–1711

Business Type: 
Music printer
Address(es): 

Fishamble Street, 1696–97
Post Office Coffee House, Fishamble Street, 1697
Back of Dick's Coffee House, Skinner Row, 1698
School House Lane, near High Street, 1699–1711

Details: 

Flood states that Brocas 'issued several musical settings between the years 1704 and 1708'.

[Dates and addresses differ according to sources: Dix gives the date as 1706 with no address. Humphries and Smith and Boydell (Calendar) give the dates as 1696 to 1707 with no address. Munter gives the Post Office Coffee house, Fishamble Street from 1696 to 1697; the back of Dick's Coffee House, Skinner Row, 1687 to 1698 and School House Lane from 1698 to 1711. Powell gives the addresses above from 1696 to 1707.]

Select Product/Work List: 

Printed

  • The Psalms of David in metre. Newly translated with amendments. By William Barton M.A. And set to the best psalm-tunes, in two parts, viz. treble and bass; ... The second edition, corrected and amended. With the basses. By Thomas Smith. Dublin printed by J. Brocas, for Elip. Dobson, Tho. Servant; booksellers in Castle street; and Peter Lawrence, bookseller on the Merchant-Key 1706 (Humphries & Smith)
    • See Also: 

    Brent, John
    Dobson, Eliphal (i)
    Lawrence, Peter
    Powell, Stephen
    Servant, Thomas

    Source(s): 

    Flood, W.H. Grattan, 'Music-Printing in Dublin from 1700 to 1750', The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 5th ser., 38.1 (30 September 1908), 236–40 (p. 237)

    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)

    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. 86

    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. 36–37

    Boydell, Barra, 'The Development of the Dublin Music Print Trade to 1800', Long Room (1996), pp.25-33 (p. 28)

    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. 54–55

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Brocas, John', Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

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

    Last Update: 20-05-2021