HENRY

See also:

• HENRY COLBURN (d. 1855)
• COLBURN, ZERAH (1804-1840)

COLBURN (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 .