Servant, Thomas

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1682–1710

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

St Patrick's Close, 1682–83
Golden Lane, 1698
The Bible, Castle Street, 1701–10

Details: 

In partnership with Eliphal Dobson and Peter Lawrence in 1706.

Apprentice: Peter Lawrence (brother-in-law).

Munter notes Servant's death in the Dublin Grant Book in 1711. A Thomas Servant, publisher, is referred to in the records of St Werburgh's Church in 1705/6, 1711, 1712, 1714. At least some of these must refer to a son[?].

[Details differ according to sources: Munter gives the dates and addresses as above. Dix gives the date of 1706. Humphries & Smith and Boydell (Calendar) give Castle Street in 1706. Boydell (Card Index) gives Castle Street 'before 1726 (1706)'.]

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Published

  • The Psalms of David in Metre, Newly Translated, with Amendments. By William Barton. The Second Edition, Corrected and Amended. With the basses, by Thomas Smith. Printed by J. Brocas, for Elip. Dopson [sic], Tho Servant Booksellers in Castle Street and P. Lawrence ... 1706 (Humphries & Smith)
    • See Also: 

    Brocas, John
    Dobson, Eliphal (i)
    Lawrence, Peter

    Source(s): 

    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. 289

    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), p. 244

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

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

    Last Update: 12-02-2017