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COLBURN, HENRY (d. 1855)

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 660 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CLI-COM
COLBURN, HENRY (d. 1855) , British publisher, obtained his earliest experience of bookselling in London at the
establishment
  of W.
Earle
 , Albemarle Street, and afterwards as an assistant at IVIorgan's Library, Conduit Street, of which in 1816 he became
proprietor. He afterwards removed to New Burlington Street, where he established himself as a publisher, resigning the Conduit Street Library to Messrs Saunders & Otley. In 1814 he originated the New Monthly Magazine, of which at various times
Thomas
  Campbell, Bulwer Lytton,
Theodore
  Hook and Harrison Ainsworth were editors. Colburn- published in 1818 Evelyn's Diary, and in 1825 the Diary of Pepys, edited by Lord Braybrooke, paying 2200 for the copyright. He also issued Disraeli's first novel, Vivian Grey, and a large number of other works by
Theodore
  Hook, G. P. R. James,
Marryat
  and Bulwer Lytton. In 1829 Richard
Bentley
  (q.v.) was taken into partnership; and in 1832 Colburn retired, but set up again soon afterwards in-dependently in
Great
  Marlborough Street; his business was taken over in 1841 by Messrs Hurst & Blackett.
Henry
  Colburn died on the 16th of August 1855, leaving property to the value of 35,000.


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