White, Luke

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1775–1789

Business Type: 
Bookseller
Printer
Publisher
Address(es): 

18 Crampton Court, 1775–79
6 Crampton Court, 1779–82
86 Dame Street, 1782–89

Details: 

Listed in the Dublin Directories as 'printer & bookseller' (1777–79) and 'printer' (1780–89).

[Dates and addresses differ according to sources: Flood gives 18 Crampton Court in 1779, No. 6 Crampton Court from October 1779, and 86 Dame Street from 1780 to 1786. Hogan and Humphries & Smith give 18 Crampton Court from c. 1775 to 1779, 6 Crampton Court from c. 1779 to 1782 and 86 Dame Street from c. 1782 to 1789.]

Select Product/Work List: 

Issued (as listed in Flood)

  • Rosseau, Complete Dictionary of Music, 1779
  • Rameau, Treatise on Music, 1779
  • Malchair, Treatise of Music, 1779
  • Walker, Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards, 1786
    • 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. 104

    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. 331

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

    Last Update: 26-09-2013