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Henry Colburn (1784/5 – August 16, 1855), British
Kingdom of Great Britain

The Kingdom of Great Britain, also known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain, was a country in North-West Europe, in existence from 1707 to 1801....
 publisher, obtained his earliest experience of book-selling in London
London

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 at the establishment of W. Earle, Albemarle Street
Albemarle Street

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, and afterwards as an assistant at Morgan'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.






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Henry Colburn (1784/5 – August 16, 1855), British
Kingdom of Great Britain

The Kingdom of Great Britain, also known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain, was a country in North-West Europe, in existence from 1707 to 1801....
 publisher, obtained his earliest experience of book-selling in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 at the establishment of W. Earle, Albemarle Street
Albemarle Street

Albemarle Street is a street in Mayfair in central London, off Piccadilly. It has historic associations with George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, whose publisher John Murray was based here, and Oscar Wilde, a member of the Albemarle Club, where an insult he received led to his suing for libel and to his eventual imprisonment....
, and afterwards as an assistant at Morgan'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
Thomas Campbell

Thomas Campbell was a Scotland poet chiefly remembered for his sentimental poetry dealing specially with human affairs. He was also one of the initiators of a plan to found what became the University of London....
, Bulwer Lytton
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton was an England novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and the infamous incipit "It was a dark and stormy...
, Theodore Hook and Harrison Ainsworth
William Harrison Ainsworth

William Harrison Ainsworth was an England historical novelist born in Manchester. He trained as a lawyer, but the legal profession had no attraction for him....
 were editors.

Colburn published in 1818 Evelyn
John Evelyn

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's Diary, and in 1825 the Diary of Pepys
Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys, Fellow of the Royal Society was an English people Navy Board and Member of Parliament, who is now most famous for his diary. Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work and his talent for administration, to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under James II of England....
, 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, GPR James
George Payne Rainsford James

George Payne Rainsford James , novelist and historical writer, son of a physician in London, was for many years British Consul at various places in the United States and on the Continent....
, Marryat
Frederick Marryat

Captain Frederick Marryat was an England novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story....
 and Bulwer Lytton.

In 1829, Richard Bentley was taken into partnership; and in 1832 Colburn retired, but set up again soon afterwards independently in Great Marlborough Street
Great Marlborough Street

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; his business was taken over in 1841 by Messrs Hurst & Blackett. Henry Colburn died on the 16 August 1855, leaving property to the value of £35,000.

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