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Name
  
John Dicks

Role
  
Publisher

Died
  
1881


John Dicks (publisher)

John dicks and phoebe paslaski sing the prayer


John Thomas Dicks (1818-1881) was a publisher in London in the 19th century. He issued popular, affordably priced fiction and drama, such as "shilling Shakespeares and wonderfully cheap reprints of Scott and other standard authors." Earlier in his career he worked with Peter Perring Thoms and George W. M. Reynolds. Employees included illustrator Frederick Gilbert. Readers included Thomas Burt and Havelock Ellis. Dicks retired in the 1870s, when his sons took over the firm which continued into the 1960s.

Contents

Works issued by John Dicks

  • Musical Treasures  (sheet music series); numbered list

    • Drama

  • The British drama: illustrated, 1–4, 1864–66 
  • Dicks' British Drama, 1866-  (series)

    • Dicks' Standard Plays

  • Dicks' Standard Plays, 1874–1907  (series)
  • List of Dicks' Standard Plays, 1883 —Arranged by number, title, author (Ainsworth, Dickens, Lytton, Scott, et al.), and theme (nautical, dumb hero, ghost, Irish, Scotch, military, temperance, fairy, equestrian, etc.).

    • Fiction

  • George W. M. Reynolds. Mysteries of the Court of London. 
  • Dicks' English Novels  (series); numbered list
  • Dicks' English Library of Standard Works  (series).
  • Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, v.33 (via British Library on Flickr)
  • WorldCat. Dicks' English Library of Standard Works (series)
  • Dicks' Celebrated Works  (series); numbered list

    • Periodicals

  • Bow Bells: a Weekly Magazine of General Literature and Art —Authors included: George Manville Fenn, George Augustus Sala.
  • Fashion plate, 1865
  • Fashion plates, 1870s
  • Reynolds's Miscellany
  • "Halfpenny Gazette". 1861–1865. 
  • "Every Week". 1869–1896. 
  • "Penny Illustrated Weekly News". 
  • Eliza Winstanley (ed.). "Fiction".  (weekly)

    • Catalogues

  • List of Books Published by John Dicks, c. 1860s 
  • John Dicks' catalogue, 1874, OCLC 500243028 

    • References

    John Dicks (publisher) Wikipedia
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