Bradbury and Evans

[2][3][4] For the first ten years Bradbury & Evans were printers, then added publishing in 1841 after they purchased Punch magazine.

[3][4] As printers they did work for Joseph Paxton,[5] Edward Moxon and Chapman and Hall (publishers of Charles Dickens).

[3] Bradbury and Evans published William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair in 1847 (as a serial), as well as most of his longer fiction.

Bradbury & Evans as publishers might have found themselves in the forefront of the ongoing campaign against "taxes on knowledge"; but the initial court decision went in their favour.

The government then tried amending the existing law, to duck public opinion, reversing the stand taken by the revenue on the definition of "newspaper".