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." Earlier in his career he worked with Peter Perring Thoms and George W. M. Reynolds. Employees included illustrator Frederick Gilbert. Readers included Thomas Burt and Havelock Ellis. Dicks retired in the 1870s, when his sons took over the firm which continued into the 1960s.
Contents
Works issued by John Dicks
Musical Treasures (sheet music series); numbered list
Drama
The British drama: illustrated, vol. 1–4, John Dicks, 1864–66
Dicks' British Drama, 1866–, 1866 (series)
Dicks' Standard Plays, 1874–1907 (series)
List of Dicks' Standard Plays and Free Acting Drama, 1883, OL 7225611M – arranged by number, title, author (Ainsworth, Dickens, Lytton, Scott, etc.), and theme (nautical, dumb hero, ghost, Irish, Scotch, military, temperance, fairy, equestrian, etc.)
Fiction
George W. M. Reynolds. Mysteries of the Court of London.
Dicks' English Novels (series); numbered list
Dicks' English Library of Standard Works (series).
Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, v.33 (via British Library on Flickr)
WorldCat. Dicks' English Library of Standard Works (series)
Dicks' Celebrated Works (series); numbered list
Periodicals
Bow Bells: A Weekly Magazine of General Literature and Art, 1862, pp. 83 v – authors included George Manville Fenn, George Augustus Sala
Fashion plate, 1865
Fashion plates, 1870s
Reynolds' Miscellany
Halfpenny Gazette, 1861–1865
Every Week, 1869–1896
Penny Illustrated Weekly News
Fiction, edited by Eliza Winstanley – weekly
Catalogues
Shakespeare, William (c. 1860s), List of Books Published by John Dicks
John Dicks' Catalogue, 1874, OCLC 500243028