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First edition. Illustrated from black and white photographic plates, portraits, maps, cartoons and caricatures by Calvert Smith, Westerman, E.W. Kemble, Opper, Coffman, Morris, Minor, Sykes, and others first appearing in various magazines and newspapers like *Punch*, *Harper's*, *Philadelphia Public Ledger*, and others. Six periodicals bound into three quarter leather with marble papercovered boards and gilt-stamped spine, floral endpapers. Quarto. 724pp. Ex-library with minimal markings, lacking the last page, extremities worn and chipped, one inch loss of the spine head, about very good. Containing a myriad of topics and information on history, science, architecture, drama, women, poetry, literature, art, world events occurring in 1912. Including a full-page announcement of missing British suffragette Christabel Pankhurst, Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). In reality, she escaped British jail by running off to France. She returned to England in 1914 and was immediately arrested. A review for Edna Ferber's *Buttered Side Down.* Articles such as "Joseph Conrad's Profession of Artistic Faith", "New Glimpses of Lafcadio Hearn", "The Centenary of Charles Dickens", "The Race for Number Three" by Jack London, "The Ocean's Supreme Tragedy: The Fate of the Titanic", "Stories of the Titanic's Last Hours", "New Appraisals of Robert Browning, "Louis Sullivan, 'The First American Artchitect'," and many more. Poetry by G.K. Chesteron, A. Conan Doyle, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, John Masefield, Louis Untermeyer, *The Titanic* by Katharine Lee Bates, Joyce Kilmer, John Galsworthy, and others. A play entitled "*The Typhoon* - A Dramatization of the Yellow Peril.", "Oscar Hammerstein's Rejuvenation of Musical London", and more. Scarce. Seller Inventory # 466865
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