| Name: |
BIRCHALL, Robert |
| County: |
London |
| Town: |
London |
| Address(es): |
129 New Bond St. 133 New Bond St |
| Book Trades: |
Music seller, Publisher (music), Printer (music), Librarian/owner of circulating library (music) |
| Non-Book Trade: |
Music (musical instrument seller) |
| Trading Dates: |
1783 - 1819 |
| Biographical Dates: |
1760 ? - 1819 (date of death) |
| Notes: |
Either partner or apprentice to William & Mrs Elizabeth Randall.
1783 in business with T. Beardmore as Beardmore & Birchall or Birchall & Beardmore. 1783-1789 in partnership with Hugh Andrews as Birchall & Andrews. Also issued publications under name Birchall & Co. Continued alone in firm until 1819. Succeeded at his death by Birchall, Lonsdale & Mills (also known as Birchall & Co. or Mills & Co.) Firm known as Lonsdale & Mills until dissolution of partnership in 1834.
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| Sources: |
- Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
- Kassler, Jamie Croy, The Science of Music in Britain, 1714-1839: a catalogue of writings, lectures and inventions (New York & London, 1979), 2 vols.
- Maxted, Ian, The London Book Trades, 1775-1800: a preliminary checklist of members (Folkestone, 1977)
Maxted, Ian, The London Book Trades, 1735-1775: a checklist of members in trade directories and in Musgrave's 'Obituary' (Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History No.3, 1984) - Holden's Triennial Directory, 1802, 1803, & 1804, 3rd edn (London: W. Holden [1802])
- D.W. Krummel & Stanley Sadie (eds.), Music Printing and Publishing, The Norton/Grove Handbooks in Music (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1990)
- 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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