Button, Simon

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1712?–1722

Business Type: 
Music publisher
Music seller
Address(es): 

Anglesea Street

Details: 

[Dates differ according to sources: Boydell (Calendar) gives the dates as 1712 to 1719 and Pollard gives them as 1713 to 1722.]

Select Product/Work List: 

Published (as listed in Flood)

  • 'John Sigismund Cousser's Birthday Ode for Queen Ann as performed at Dublin Castle', 6 February 1712
  • 'The King's Birthday Ode', 28 May 1719
  • An Irish Jig or the Night Ramble, c. 1712 [Boydell Long Room suggests that may have been printed in London, not by Button (citing The Catalogue of Printed Music in the British Library to 1980)]

    • Sold

  • 'Lately imported from Leghorn, a Great parcell of right Venus Catlin Strings for Volins, and base Vialls etc. Also Silver thirds and Fourths for Violins, the best Strings that have been in this Kingdom. And are to be Sold for three Pence per Knot the Caitlin Strings, or for six Shillings per Bundel, the Silver Strings will be Sold for five Pence per Ring, which is one Penny Chaper in Each, than they were Sold for here. Where Gentlemen may be Furnished with the Newest Instrumental Musick at the first Cost, allowing only the Exchange, and also very fine Flute Bous [sic] for Violins', 1722 (Harding's Impartial News-Letter)
    • Source(s): 

    Harding's Impartial News-Letter, 28 December 1722, p. 2

    Flood, W.H. Grattan, 'Dublin Music Printing from 1685 to 1750', The Bibliographical Society of Ireland: Short Papers, 2.1 (1921), 7–12 (p. 10)

    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. 94

    Boydell, Brian, A Dublin Musical Calendar 1700–1760 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1988), p. 261

    Boydell, Barra, 'The Development of the Dublin Music Print Trade to 1800', Long Room (1996), pp.25-33 (pp. 30, 33)

    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. 71

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

    Last Update: 20-05-2021