John Dicks (publisher) explained

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.[1] Readers included Thomas Burt and Havelock Ellis.[2] Dicks retired in the 1870s, when his sons took over the firm[3] which continued into the 1960s.[4] [5]

Works issued by John Dicks

Drama

Dicks' Standard Plays

NumberTitleAuthorImageFulltext
10Iron ChestGeorge ColmanCover
14HoneymoonJohn TobinInternet Archive
354Alice Gray, the suspected one John T. HainesHathiTrust
368Factory Assassin [6]
388Bleak House George Lander, adapted from Charles Dickens
398Old Curiosity Shop George Lander, adapted from Charles Dickens
400Jane Eyre Cover
409Culprit; and, The boarding schoolHathiTrust
432The Fairy Circle; or, Con O’Carrolan’s Dream, in two actsH. P. Grattan
460Black Doctor [7] Ira Aldridge
465St. Patrick's DayRichard Brinsley SheridanInternet Archive
469Nicholas Nickleby H. Simms, adapted from Charles Dickens
485Yew tree ruins John Thomas HainesCoverHathi Trust
561Pic-Nic and The Railway HotelGoogle Books
571Infant Phenomenon H. Horncastle, adapted from Charles Dickens
571Captain Cuttle John Brougham
626Jane, the Licensed Victualler's DaughterJ.P. Hart
636Bardell & Pickwick Adapted from Charles Dickens [8]
641Factory Boy John Thomas Haines
666Bringing Home the BrideGoogle Books
669AngelineGoogle Books
671NoyadesGoogle Books
673Love, Law and PhysicGoogle Books
790Factory Strike G.F. Taylor
809Lesson for Ladies John Baldwin BuckstoneHathiTrust
898Court BeautiesJames Planché
930Factory Lad John Walker
1001Battle of Life Adapted from Charles Dickens
1004Nine too manyJ.B. BuckstoneHathiTrust
1004Wigwam Shirley BrooksHathiTrust
1052No Thoroughfare [9]

Fiction

Periodicals

Catalogues

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Frederick Gilbert . Yesterday's Papers (blog) . 2010 . July 4, 2014 .
  2. From Aldine to Everyman: Cheap Reprint Series of the English Classics 1830-1906 . Richard D. Altick . Studies in Bibliography . 11 . 3–24 . 1958 . 40371227 . Richard D. Altick .
  3. Book: Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor. Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. https://books.google.com/books?id=qVrUTUelE6YC&pg=PA169 . John Dicks . 2009. Academia Press. 978-90-382-1340-8 . Christopher Mark Banham .
  4. Book: Literary Year-Book. 1915. G. Routledge and Sons .
  5. Web site: Dicks' Standard Plays . Tales of Mystery and Pagination (blog) . Department of Early Printed Books . Trinity College Library . Dublin . July 4, 2014 . 2012 .
  6. Trouble up at t'Mill: The Rise and Decline of the Factory Play in the 1830s and 1840s . Sally Vernon . Victorian Studies . 20 . 2 . 117–139 . 1977 . 3826152 .
  7. Book: Bernth Lindfors. Ira Aldridge, the African Roscius. 2007. University Rochester Press. 978-1-58046-258-7.
  8. Book: Frederic George Kitton. Dickensiana: a bibliography of the literature relating to Charles Dickens and his writings. 1886. G. Redway.
  9. Web site: Victorian Web . Wilkie Collins . July 4, 2014 .
  10. Book: Michael Ashley. William Contento. The Supernatural Index: A Listing of Fantasy, Supernatural, Occult, Weird, and Horror Anthologies . 1995. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-313-24030-0.
  11. Book: Victor E. Neuburg. Popular Literature: A History and Guide . 1977. 2013 . Routledge. 978-1-136-89434-3 . 1800–1897 . https://books.google.com/books?id=cmOhAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA123 .

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