John Dicks (publisher)

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.

"[1] Earlier in his career he worked with Peter Perring Thoms and George W. M.

[1] Employees included illustrator Frederick Gilbert.

[2] Readers included Thomas Burt and Havelock Ellis.

Cover of Cottin 's Elizabeth or the Exiles of Siberia , published by John Dicks, Strand , London, circa 1880s.
Bow Bells , 1866 (with illustration of "Mangold in the fangs of the lion")