Lilliput
Total Issues: 276
One of the most popular magazines of the 1940s with a circulation of
around 200,000 (dropping to 75,000 in the 1950s). Photography and
personal anecdotes featured highly, but fiction was a key part. Authors
include V.S. Pritchett, Wyndham Lewis, Evelyn Waugh, Lord Dunsany,
L.A.G. Strong, Sylvia Townsend-Warner, Georges Simenon, Doris Lessing,
Maurice Richardson, John Wyndham, John Christopher.
Lilliput is available at Manchester Public Library in bound editions (some issues missing), etc.
Issues & Index Sources
#merges with Men Only
Publishers
Jul-1937 – Apr-1941: Pocket Publications, Lincoln's Inn Chambers, 40-43 Chancery Lane, London, WC2
May-1941 – Jan-1960: Hulton Press
Feb-1960 – Jul-1960: Longacre Press
Editors
1937 – 1940: Stefan Lorant
1940 – 1947: Tom Hopkinson
1947 – 1950: Richard Bennett
1951 – Sep-1955: Jack Hargreaves
Oct-1955? – Dec-1959: William Richardson
Jan-1960 – Jul-1960: Denis Pitts
Formats
Jul-1937 – Feb/Mar-1954: digest
Apr-1954 – Jul-1960: octavo full-flat size
Prices
Jul-1937 – Dec-1939: 6d
Jan-1940 – Jun-1940: 7d
Jul-1940 – Dec-1940: 8d
Jan-1941 – Apr-1941: 9d
May-1941 – Nov-1950: 1/-
Dec-1950 – May/Jun-1951: 1/3d
Jun/Jul-1951 – Dec-1951: 1/6d
Jan-1952 – Jul-1960: 2/-
Pagecounts
Jul-1937 – Dec-1940: 128pp
Jan-1941 – Apr-1942: 112pp
May-1942 – Dec-1946: 104pp
Jan-1947 – Nov-1948: 120pp
Dec-1948 – Dec-1949: 132pp
Jan-1950 – Feb/Mar-1954: 96pp - 136pp
Apr-1954 – Dec-1955: 88pp
Jan-1956 – Dec-1959: 80pp
Jan-1960 – Jul-1960: 72pp
Frequency
monthly
Sources
BritLit4
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