John Dicks (publisher)

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Cover of Cottin's Elizabeth or the Exiles of Siberia, published by John Dicks, Strand, London, circa 1880s.

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."[1] Earlier in his career he worked with Peter Perring Thoms and George W. M. Reynolds.[1] Employees included illustrator Frederick Gilbert.[2] Readers included Thomas Burt and Havelock Ellis.[3] Dicks retired in the 1870s, when his sons took over the firm[4] which continued into the 1960s.[5][6]

Works issued by John Dicks[]

  • Musical Treasures (sheet music series); numbered list

Drama[]

Dicks' Standard Plays[]

  • Dicks' Standard Plays, 1874–1907 (series)[6]
  • List of Dicks' Standard Plays and Free Acting Drama, 1883, OL 7225611M – arranged by number, title, author (Ainsworth, Dickens, Lytton, Scott, etc.), and theme (nautical, dumb hero, ghost, Irish, Scotch, military, temperance, fairy, equestrian, etc.)
List of Dicks' Standard Plays

Fiction[]

Periodicals[]

Bow Bells, 1866 (with illustration of "Mangold in the fangs of the lion")

Catalogues[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Obituary", The Bookseller, 3 March 1881, hdl:2027/mdp.39015011421453
  2. ^ "Frederick Gilbert". Yesterday's Papers (blog). 2010. Retrieved July 4, 2014.
  3. ^ Richard D. Altick (1958). "From Aldine to Everyman: Cheap Reprint Series of the English Classics 1830-1906". Studies in Bibliography. 11: 3–24. JSTOR 40371227.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c Christopher Mark Banham (2009). "John Dicks". In Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor (ed.). Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. Academia Press. ISBN 978-90-382-1340-8.
  5. ^ Literary Year-Book. G. Routledge and Sons. 1915.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Department of Early Printed Books (2012). "Dicks' Standard Plays". Tales of Mystery and Pagination (blog). Dublin: Trinity College Library. Retrieved July 4, 2014.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Sally Vernon (1977). "Trouble up at t'Mill: The Rise and Decline of the Factory Play in the 1830s and 1840s". Victorian Studies. 20 (2): 117–139. JSTOR 3826152.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Frederic George Kitton (1886). Dickensiana: a bibliography of the literature relating to Charles Dickens and his writings. G. Redway.
  9. ^ Bernth Lindfors (2007). Ira Aldridge, the African Roscius. University Rochester Press. ISBN 978-1-58046-258-7.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Dramatized Works of Charles Dickens", List of Dicks' Standard Plays, 1883
  11. ^ "Wilkie Collins". Victorian Web. Retrieved July 4, 2014.
  12. ^ Jump up to: a b c Victor E. Neuburg (2013) [1977]. "1800–1897". Popular Literature: A History and Guide. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-89434-3.
  13. ^ Michael Ashley; William Contento (1995). The Supernatural Index: A Listing of Fantasy, Supernatural, Occult, Weird, and Horror Anthologies. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-24030-0.

Further reading[]

  • Guy Dicks (2006). The John Dicks Press. Lulu.com. ISBN 978-1-4116-4285-0.
  • "Dicks, John Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • Modern English Biography. 2 (supplement). 1908.
  • British Publishing Houses: 1820–1880. 1991.
  • Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals
  • "Death of Mr. John Thomas Dicks", Reynolds's Newspaper, 13 February 1881
  • "John Dicks, Publisher", Times Literary Supplement, 7 November 1942

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