John Medcraft

John Medcraft (1895-1951) of Ilford in greater metropolitan London collected Victorian popular fiction, known to him as "penny bloods" or "dreadfuls." In 1945, he privately published A Bibliography of the Penny Bloods of Edward Lloyd.  As he has no living descendants and no discernible next-of-kin, his publications are now orphan works.

1895 to 1951

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