John Dicks (publisher)

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.

Works issued by John Dicks (sheet music series); numbered list

Drama

(series)

Dicks' Standard Plays (series) – arranged by number, title, author (Ainsworth, Dickens, Lytton, Scott, etc.), and theme (nautical, dumb hero, ghost, Irish, Scotch, military, temperance, fairy, equestrian, etc.)

Number Title Author Image Fulltext 10 Iron Chest George Colman Cover 14 Honeymoon John Tobin Internet Archive 354 Alice Gray, the suspected one John T. Haines HathiTrust 368 Factory Assassin 388 Bleak House George Lander, adapted from Charles Dickens 398 Old Curiosity Shop George Lander, adapted from Charles Dickens 400 Jane Eyre Cover 409 Culprit; and, The boarding school HathiTrust 432 The Fairy Circle; or, Con O’Carrolan’s Dream, in two acts H. P. Grattan 460 Black Doctor Ira Aldridge 465 St. Patrick's Day Richard Brinsley Sheridan Internet Archive 469 Nicholas Nickleby H. Simms, adapted from Charles Dickens 485 Yew tree ruins John Thomas Haines Cover HathiTrust 561 Pic-Nic and The Railway Hotel Google Books 571 Infant Phenomenon H. Horncastle, adapted from Charles Dickens 571 Captain Cuttle John Brougham 626 Jane, the Licensed Victualler's Daughter J.P. Hart 636 Bardell & Pickwick Adapted from Charles Dickens 641 Factory Boy John Thomas Haines 666 Bringing Home the Bride Google Books 669 Angeline Google Books 671 Noyades Google Books 673 Love, Law and Physic Google Books 790 Factory Strike G.F. Taylor 809 Lesson for Ladies John Baldwin Buckstone HathiTrust 898 Court Beauties James Planché 930 Factory Lad John Walker 1001 Battle of Life Adapted from Charles Dickens 1004 Nine too many J.B. Buckstone HathiTrust 1004 Wigwam Shirley Brooks HathiTrust 1052 No Thoroughfare

Fiction

(series); numbered list (series). Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, v.33 (via British Library on Flickr) WorldCat. Dicks' English Library of Standard Works (series) (series); numbered list

Periodicals

– authors included George Manville Fenn, George Augustus Sala Fashion plate, 1865 Fashion plates, 1870s Reynolds' Miscellany Halfpenny Gazette, 1861–1865 Every Week, 1869–1896 Penny Illustrated Weekly News Fiction, edited by Eliza Winstanley – weekly

Catalogues

References

Further reading

Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals

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