John Limbird

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John Limbird (1796?-1883) was an English stationer, bookseller and publisher, characterised by an obituarist as "the father of our periodical writing".^[1]

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.^[2]

[edit] References

1. ^ Quoted in Altick, Richard D., The English Common Reader, 2nd ed., 1998, p. 320
2. ^ Altick, p. 266

[edit] 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)