Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948) was a British journalist, publisher, critic, and bibliophile best known for his writing on books, reading, and literary culture. Born George Holbrook Jackson, he worked in journalism and became associated with early twentieth-century intellectual and artistic circles, including the Fabian movement and the Arts and Crafts-influenced world of fine printing. He co-founded the literary periodical The New Age with A. R. Orage in 1907, helping make it an important forum for modern literary, political, and cultural debate. Jackson later worked as an editor and critic, and wrote widely on book collecting, typography, publishing, and the history of ideas. His major works include The Eighteen Nineties (1913), a study of the aesthetic and decadent movements of the 1890s, The Anatomy of Bibliomania (1930), and The Reading of Books (1946). His prose is learned, aphoristic, and bookish, marked by a deep belief in reading as a central civilizing pleasure.
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