John Dicks

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.

• Musical Treasures (sheet music series); numbered list

Drama

• The British drama: illustrated, 1–4, John Dicks, 1864–66
• Dicks' British Drama, 1866–, 1866 (series)

Dicks' Standard Plays

• 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.)

List of Dicks' Standard Plays

Number	Title	Author	Image	Fulltext
10	Iron Chest	George Colman	Cover
14	Honeymoon	John Tobin		Internet Archive
354	Alice Gray, the suspected one	John T. Haines		HathiTrust
368	Factory Assassin
388	Bleak House	George Lander, adapted from Charles Dickens
398	Old Curiosity Shop	George Lander, adapted from Charles Dickens
400	Jane Eyre		Cover
409	Culprit; and, The boarding school			HathiTrust
460	Black Doctor	Ira Aldridge
465	St. Patrick's Day	Richard Brinsley Sheridan		Internet Archive
469	Nicholas Nickleby	H. Simms, adapted from Charles Dickens
485	Yew tree ruins	John Thomas Haines	Cover	Hathi Trust
561	Pic-Nic and The Railway Hotel			Google Books
571	Infant Phenomenon	H. Horncastle, adapted from Charles Dickens
571	Captain Cuttle	John Brougham
626	Jane, the Licensed Victualler's Daughter	J.P. Hart
636	Bardell & Pickwick	Adapted from Charles Dickens
641	Factory Boy	John Thomas Haines
790	Factory Strike	G.F. Taylor
809	Lesson for Ladies	John Baldwin Buckstone		HathiTrust
898	Court Beauties	James Planché
930	Factory Lad	John Walker
1001	Battle of Life	Adapted from Charles Dickens
1004	Nine too many	J.B. Buckstone		HathiTrust
1004	Wigwam	Shirley Brooks		HathiTrust
1052	No Thoroughfare

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