Editor of 'London Society', ‘an illustrated magazine of light and amusing literature’. He was close friends with Randolph Caldecott whose illustrations often appeared in his publications.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Henry Blackburn
Unveiled by William Holman Hunt. There must have been a committee to erect th...
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Manufacturers of printing ink for the newspaper industry. Its head office was at Wine Office Court off Fleet Street.
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