Lilliput was a small-format British monthly magazine of humour, short stories, photographs and the arts, founded in 1937 by the photojournalist Stefan Lorant; the first issue came out in July. It was sold shortly after to Edward G. Hulton, and then editorship was taken over by Tom Hopkinson (1940). During the 1950s Lilliput was edited by Jack Hargreaves. The first 147 issues (until late 1949) had covers illustrated by Walter Trier; each design employed a man, a woman, and a dog. Contributors included Bill Brandt, Brassaï, Patrick Campbell, Aleister Crowley, Robert Doisneau, C. S. Forester, John Glashan, Robert Graves, Michael Heath, Nancy Mitford, Stephen Potter, V. S. Pritchett, James Boswell (artist), Ronald Ferns and Ronald Searle. From August 1960 it was merged within Men Only (which only later became pornographic).
(Lilliput Review, an American periodical that started in 1989, is unrelated.)
Anthologies
- Bennett, Richard, ed. The Bedside Lilliput. London: Hulton, 1950. Content from 1937–49.
- Lilliput: Walter Trier's World. Tokyo: Pie, 2004. ISBN 4-89444-367-8 Presents 99 of Trier's covers for Lilliput; text in both Japanese and English.
- The Lilliput Annual.