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Henry Colburn

1784/5–1855

Publisher. Proprietor of the English and Foreign Circulating Library in London, where he began his publishing operation, 1806–24. Co-founded the New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register; founded the Literary Gazette and other periodicals. Ran publishing operations in New Burlington Street, 1824–32. Set up premises at Great Marlborough Street in 1836.

Source

ODNB.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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