Bound Issues of Black and White Magazine from 1894.

[FIRST SINO-JAPANESE WAR].

Published by Black and White Magazine. October 6 - December 291894., (London)., 2918

418 - 852pp. Unbroken run of 13 issues, numbering 192 - 204, Vol. VIII. Quarter leather, rubbed and worn, watered silk covered boards, marked and discoloured, front prelims creased, but internally a very good clean and firm collection that is hard to find. 37 x 27cm. Teeming with reports on current affairs and insights into the late Victorian world, including lavish illustrations and commentaries on: The First Sino-Japanese War, including a battle at Chemulpo (Incheon), troop movements towards Ping Yang (Wenzhou?), the departure of Emperor Meiji from Shinbashi Station in Tokyo to be closer to the front (Hiroshima), Shinto rites for the war dead, and the devastation in Korea caused by the conflict. The death and funeral of Tsar Alexander III The perspectives of women - with focus principally on matters of social company, fashion and hairstyles SS La Touraine's record-breaking Trans-Atlantic crossing The naval build-up of Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II The wedding of Tsar Nikolai II to Princess Alix of Hesse The death of Ferdinand de Lesseps A profile of the House of Teck, following Princess Mary's marriage to the-then Prince George, Duke of York. Sports Satire Leisure Recurring motifs of cats and monkeys (often as anthropomorphic stand-ins) The affairs of the Church of England Technological innovations Medicine (largely composed of tonics and balms) Flying contraptions Dog and cat shows Attitudes regarding Britain's place as world hegemon and global policeman - particularly in relation to the Sino-Japanese War, and disputes with Russia over Central Asia Prevailing sentiments towards other nationalities such as the Chinese (including the Irish as nominal Britons) Commentaries on global geopolitics through the medium of advertising for Eno's fruit salt Black & White: A Weekly Illustrated Record and Review was a British Victorian-era illustrated weekly periodical founded in 1891 by Charles Norris Williamson. Oswald Crawfurd was a director of Black & White upon its establishment. Eden Phillpotts worked as part-time assistant editor in the 1890s, and Arthur Mee worked as an editor in the late 1890s. The magazine published fiction by Henry James, Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells, Robert Barr, A. E. W. Mason, Jerome K. Jerome and E. Nesbit. Others who wrote for Black & White included Samuel Bensusan, J. Keighley Snowden, Philip Howard Colomb, Nora Hopper, Henry Dawson Lowry, Robert Wilson Lynd, Theodore Bent, and Barry Pain. In its first year, Black & White published "A Straggler of '15'", a short story by Conan Doyle, and began serializing "The South Seas", a series of letters by Robert Louis Stevenson. May Sinclair published her first short story, "A Study From Life", in the magazine in November 1895. The periodical carried art by Harry Furniss, Mortimer Menpes, Louis Wain and Richard Caton Woodville; and photography by Horace Nicholls. (Wikipedia). Seller Inventory # 180222

Bibliographic Details

Title: Bound Issues of Black and White Magazine ...
Publisher: Black and White Magazine. October 6 - December 291894., (London).
Publication Date: 2918
Binding: Soft cover