Lilliput was a small-format British monthly magazine of humour, short stories, photographs and the arts, founded in 1937 by the photojournalist Stefan Lorant.[1][2] The first issue came out in July and it was sold shortly after to Edward Hulton, when editorship was taken over by Tom Hopkinson in 1940: his assistant editor from 1941 to 1948 was Kaye Webb.[3] During the 1950s Lilliput was edited by Jack Hargreaves. It had a reputation for publishing what were, for the time, fairly daring photographs of female nudes.
The first 147 issues (until late 1949) had covers illustrated by Walter Trier[2] with each design depicting a man, a woman, and a small Scottish Terrier dog in various situations and periods.
A History and Bibliography of Lilliput was published in May 2024. The compiler was Chris Harte and it was released by Sports History Publishing.
Lilliput Review, an American periodical that started in 1989, is unrelated.
Reading
Bennett, Richard, ed. The Bedside Lilliput. London: Hulton, 1950. Content from 1937–49.
Lilliput: Walter Trier's World. Tokyo: Pie, 2004. ISBN4-89444-367-8 Presents 99 of Trier's covers for Lilliput; text in both Japanese and English.
The Lilliput Annual
Webb, Kaye, ed. Lilliput Goes to War. London: Hutchinson, 1985.
Notes
↑ Hallett, Michael. Stefan Lorant: godfather of photojournalism. Scarecrow Press, 2006 ISBN0810856824 (p. 61)
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