Description
The Strand magazine, vol. 7. January – June 1894.
Bound copies of The Strand Magazine which was a popular monthly magazine that was published between 1891 and 1950. Highly illustrated, it carried interviews with celebrities of the time and is best remembered as the original publisher of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories.
Hardback. Faux leather cover with gilt lettering on spine. Rubbed at all edges; rubbed through to the boards in a few places. Reg Valllintine bookplate on inside front cover.
Front endpaper has piece missing from leading edge and is beautifully inscribed ‘Edwd Rose Attleborough’. Foxing throughout, especially on first and last few pages.
Contents: ‘My Diving Dress‘, Thomas Sidney Cooper RA, , Charles Dickers’ signatures, Dynamite and dynamiters, Oxford and Cambridge Union Societies, the Langham Sketching Club, How composers work, Coiners and coining,
672 pages
Black and white illustrations
180 mm x 245 mm (approx. 7 in x 9.5 in)
1894, George Newnes Ltd, London