The Autolycus of the bookstalls

by Walter Jerrold

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216 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1902

About the author

English writer, biographer and newspaper editor. Walter Copeland Jerrold (1865-1929) was born in Liverpool but spent most of his life in London, where he followed a literary career. Starting work as a clerk in a newspaper counting-house, he went on to become deputy editor of The Observer. He edited many classic texts for the newly founded Everyman’s Library, he wrote biographies, he produced stories for children under the name of Walter Copeland.

"Tradition in the nursery has acted as a severe editor." He had five daughters (m. Clara Armstrong Bridgman 1895), and one, Ianthe Jerrold (1898–1977) wrote fiction.

Biographies (Lamb 1905),
Children's books (Big Book of Fables 1987),
Classic texts for Everyman's Library,
Travel books for Blackie & Son "Beautiful England" series (Hampton Court 1916)