Details for: CORBETT, Charles

Name: CORBETT, Charles
County: London
Town: London
Address(es): At Addison's Hd, in Fleet St (1732-52). Res: At St Mary's Hill (1709). Islington (1752)
Book Trades: Publisher, Bookseller, Newspaper proprietor, Publisher (music), Publisher (magazine)
Non-Book Trade: Not known
Trading Dates: 1732 (before) - 1752
Biographical Dates: 1710 (date of birth) - 1752 (date of death)
Notes: dealt in plays children's books, dictionaries etc. Published British Magazine' (1746>). Successor to father Thomas Corbett; succeeded by son Sir Charles Corbett
Sources:
  • Kassler, Jamie Croy, The Science of Music in Britain, 1714-1839: a catalogue of writings, lectures and inventions (New York & London, 1979), 2 vols.
  • Plomer, Henry R. et al, A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1726 to 1775 (London, 1932)
  • Rumbold, Valerie and Iain Fenlon (eds.), A Short-title Catalogue of Music Printed before 1825 in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambridge: CUP, 1992)
  • Extra source information - p. 15