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)
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