1896 Pearson's Magazine

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Signed Binding

Bound in red half morocco with red cloth boards and marbled endpapers. Binder's stamp from Fazakerley Binder Manchester.

In two volumes, including Volume I (January to June, 1896) and Volume II (July to December, 1896).

Profusely illustrated with in-text and full-page monochrome illustrations and photographs from countless illustrators. Volume I also contains six single-sided and six double-sided plates. Volume II contains five single-sided and five double-sided monochrome plates with the addition of one colour plate to page 601.

This set compiles Pearson's Magazine issues from the year of its emersion, 1896. The monthly periodical specialised in speculative literature, left-leaning political discussion and the arts. Notably, it was the first British periodical to publish a crossword puzzle, which it did so in February 1922. Contributors to the magazine included George Bernard Shaw, Upton Sinclair and Phillips Oppenheim, among many more. These volumes feature texts like H. G. Wells' "In the Abyss", Allen Upward's "Secrets of the Courts of Europe" and Rudyard Kipling's "The Eathen".