Arthur Hall was a nineteenth-century publisher and writer based in

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, London. In 1848 he took over '' Sharpe's London Magazine'' from T. B. Sharpe, who had founded it in 1845 as a weekly publication. Hall made it a monthly, and moved it upmarket; the editor at the time was

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. It appeared as ''Journal'' rather than ''Magazine'' from 1849 to 1852. At this time Hall went into business with George Virtue, forming Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co. In the 1850s the firm published the "Hofland Library", a large collection of the juvenile works of

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.Julia Briggs, Dennis Butts, Matthew Orville Grenby, ''Popular Children's Literature in Britain'' (2008), pp. 117–8
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Works

* ''Who hath believed our report? : a letter to the editor of the Athenaeum, on some affinities of the Hebrew language'' (1890

* ''"Shakspere's Handwriting" Further Illustrated'' (1899) * Timothy Hall (bishop), Timothy Hall in the '' Dictionary of National Biography''

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External links

Open Library, Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co. publishing history.
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