John Limbird

John Limbird

John Limbird (1796?-1883) was an English stationer, bookseller and publisher, characterised by an obituarist as "the father of our periodical writing". [Quoted in Altick, Richard D., "The English Common Reader", 2nd ed., 1998, p. 320]

From 1822 to 1849 Limbird published a twopenny weekly, the "Mirror of Literature", which has been characterized as "the first long-lived cheap periodical" in Britain. [Altick, p. 266]

References

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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