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.
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.