Stokes, Joshua

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1781–1790

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

13 Dame Street, c. 1781
24 Dame Street, c. 1782–90
1 South Great George's Street, 1784
64 Dame Street, 1787–89

Details: 

Listed in the Dublin Directories as a 'musical instrument maker' in 1784. Not listed in 1785 to 1786, reappearing as a 'music seller' at 64 Dame Street in 1787.

Mark: 'Stokes, Dublin' (Waterhouse)

[Dates and addresses differ according to sources: Waterhouse gives the dates as early nineteenth century for 'Stokes' (no forename). Flood gives 24 Dame Street from 1780 to 1790. Humphries & Smith and Hogan give 13 Dame Street c. 1781 and 24 Dame Street from c. 1782 to 1790.]

Select Product/Work List: 

Produced

  • Flute: sold by Sotheby's in 1981

    • Published

  • 'Half-sheet songs from popular musical plays, and a set of marches, including the “Volunteers’ March,” arranged as a Rondo' (Flood)
    • Source(s): 

    Dublin Directories

    Flood, W.H. Grattan, ‘Dublin Music Printing from 1750 to 1790’, The Bibliographical Society of Ireland: Short Papers, 2.5 (1923), 101–06 (p. 105)

    Hogan, Ita Margaret, Anglo-Irish Music 1780–1830 (Cork: Cork University Press, 1966), p. 103

    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. 302

    Waterhouse, William, The New Langwill Index: a Dictionary of Musical Wind-Instrument Makers and Inventors (London: Tony Bingham, 1993), p. 388

    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), p. 553

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

    Last Update: 26-09-2013