John Limbird
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John Limbird (1796?-1883) was an
publisher, characterised by an obituarist as "the father of our periodical writing".[1]
John Limbird was christened on 1 May 1796 in the parish of St. Nicholas,
St Anne, Soho
, London.
From 1822 to 1847 Limbird published a twopenny weekly, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, which has been characterized as "the first long-lived cheap periodical" in Britain.[2] It was edited by Thomas Byerley, John Abraham Heraud, Percy Bolingbroke St John, and John Timbs. Late in 1847 it became the Mirror Monthly Magazine; and from 1849 to 1850 appeared finally as the London Review.[3] He had a shop situated in London's Strand.
References
- ^ Quoted in Altick, Richard D., The English Common Reader, 2nd ed., 1998, p. 320
- ^ Altick, p. 266
- ISBN 978-90-382-1340-8. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
Further reading
- The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists, ed. Bernard Lightman, 4 vols, Bristol: Thoemmes, 2004
- Topham, Jon, 'John Limbird, Thomas Byerley, and the Production of Cheap Periodicals in the 1820s', Book History 8 (2005)
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