Arthur Hall (stationer)

Arthur Hall was a nineteenth-century publisher and writer based in Paternoster Row, London.

In 1848 he took over Sharpe's London Magazine from T. B. Sharpe, who had founded it in 1845 as a weekly. Hall made it a monthly, and moved it upmarket; the editor at the time was Frank Smedley.^[1] It appeared as Journal rather than Magazine from 1849 to 1852.^[2] At this time Hall went into business with George Virtue, forming Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co.^[3] In the 1850s the firm published the "Hofland Library", a large collection of the juvenile works of Barbara Hofland.^[4]

Works

• Who hath believed our report? : a letter to the editor of the Athenaeum, on some affinities of the Hebrew language (1890)
• "Shakspere's Handwriting" Further Illustrated (1899)
• Timothy Hall in the Dictionary of National Biography

Notes

1. John Sutherland, The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction, p. 569; Google Books.
2. Laurel Brake, Marysa Demoor, Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland (2009), p. 569; Google Books.
3. University of Guelph page. Archived February 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
4. Julia Briggs, Dennis Butts, Matthew Orville Grenby, Popular Children's Literature in Britain (2008), pp. 117–8; Google Books.

External links

• Open Library, Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co. publishing history.