John Dicks

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." Earlier in his career he worked with Peter Perring Thoms and George W. M. Reynolds. 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) 388 Bleak House George Lander, adapted from Charles Dickens Ira Aldridge 465 St. Patrick's Day Richard Brinsley Sheridan Internet Archive 469 Nicholas Nickleby H. Simms, adapted from Charles Dickens Adapted from Charles Dickens 641 Factory Boy

Fiction

(series); 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

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