Boy's Own Paper 1894 - Incl' Annual, Christmas And Summer Numbers
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"The Boy's Own Paper - 1894", containing: - Boy's Own Annual (Vol XVI), comprising all weekly issues of 'The Boy's Own Paper' from No 769 (Sat 7th Oct 1893) to No 820 (Sat 29th Sep 1894) - Special Christmas Number, 1893 (64 pp) - Summer Number, 1894 (64 pp). These weeklies (price 1 penny) featured all manner of reading, including novels and stories, articles, reference items, "how to make", focuses on collections, historical items, chess games, current affairs, occupations, correspondence, etc, etc. This collection of all issues, plus 2 "special numbers" in the one annual provides almost 1,000 pages of fascinating reading from the Victorian times. The Boy's Own Annual was an annual volume reprinting the contents of the Boy's Own Paper (a London-based children's weekly which began in 1879 and ran until 1967), with additional illustrations (and sometimes with reformatted pages). (Note, although called a "children's weekly", the reading and articles are more suited maybe for teenage years.) Condition Fair / Good. Brown cloth boards, with gilt titling to spine. Scuffs and marks to covers, plus fraying and bumping to corners, and to top & tail of spine; 8cm tear along cover on top spine-cover edge. Pages, illustrations, text, colour plates and fold-outs, are generally in very good order, being clean, with only minimal foxing. All plate illustrations present, some colour, plus many line b/w drawings and illustrations. See photos. The binding is showing signs of loosening. Pencil to front endpaper. Heavy volume (2.5 kgs), hence courier delivery.
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