James Wood How Fiction Works

Hutchison, George A. (ed): The Boy's Own Paper (The Boys' Own Paper, The Boys Own Paper) Annual: Volume 29, 1906-1907, London R. T. S. (The Religious Tract Society) 1907
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xii, 824pp inc index and hundreds of b&w illustrations - The 1906-07 bound annual volume (Vol 29) of the ubiquitous "Boy's Own Paper". Fiction, non-fiction, prose, poetry, projects, instruction, adventure, are all the stuff of BOP, but it's the adventure stories it's now best remembered for. <P> This volume contains many adventure short stories and serialised novels. It also contains instruction on making ventriloquism easy, building a wooden trolley-car, how to do Jiu-Jitsu, and "dog management". In additon there are tons of beautiful b+w engravings by some of the best illustrators of the Victorian era as well as ten colour plates, several of which are fold-out and most of which have their original tissue guards in place. <P> One of the brilliant artists whose work is included is G. E. Studdy (1878-1948) who started out as an apprentice to an engineering firm and later worked as a stockbroker's clerk before taking up illustration. His work was first regularly featured in "Comic Cuts" and then in "The Tatler". <P> In 1903 his brother Hubert wrote a story about a comic dog which George illustrated. By 1912, Studdy was producing work for "The Graphic", "The Sketch" and the "Illustrated London News", often drawing a dog which went only by the name of "The Studdy Dog". <P> But in November 1922 Studdy's "Bonzo" was first published in "The Sketch". Bonzo, was a little dog of indistinguishable breed and with saucer-like childish eyes. Bonzo became an international favourite and earned Studdy a rather good income. <P> Another illustrator included in this volume is Savile Lumley who was a popular book and magazine illustrator for several magazines and comics including "Boy's Own Paper", "The Champion Annual", "Chatterbox" and "Little Folks". He is perhaps best remembered as a poster designer, with his most famous being the famous WWI poster, "Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?" <P> Authors whose works are included in this volume include: Montague A. Holbein (a well-known Victorian-era channel swimmer who trained under the world renowned fitness svengali, Harry Andrews), Charles J. B. Marriott (Rugby Football Union Secretary at about the time this volume was issued), J. A. Owen (British Writer on Natural History, esp ornithology and fish), Percy V. Bradshaw (author and artist) and Dr. Gordon Stables. <P> Stables was a naval surgeon and writer, who was the designer of 'The Wanderer', the first caravan in the world designed specifically for touring and holiday use, as described in his book "The Cruise of the Land-Yacht Wanderer" and which was built in 1884/5, <P> Other illustrators whose works grace this volume's pages include: Tom Browne (English lithographer and illustrator who specialised in sport, and an original member of the London Sketch Club), Louis Wain (1860-1939) English artist best known for his drawings, especially those featuring anthropomorphised large-eyed cats and kittens), Savile Lumley and Percy V. Bradshaw. <P> Covers (red cloth with two-colour illustration to front and spine and black line drawings to rear board) are a bit of a disaster, soiled, edgeworn, rubbed, bumped corners and the backstrip of the spine has been replaced with cloth tape to which the original backstrip's illustration and date have been afixed. FEP and Title pages are missing, but otherwise the textblock is relatively clean and tight. <B>A large and heavy (about 3 Kg when packaged) volume which will require additional shipping cost.</B> First Edition No Jacket Decorative Cloth 8.5 x 11.5"

[SW: Rev. W. J. Ferrar, Mary E. Ropes, William C. Sutherland, Alison Grieve, Montague A. Holbein, W. E. Cule, George A. Wade, Jack Maitland, Ronald W. Barker, Charles J. B. Marriott, J. A. Owen, F. M. Holmes, Frank Elias, H. Leather, Louis Becke, W. Gunn Gwennet, John Foster, Dr. Gordon Stables, Francis M. Nicholls, Percy V. Bradshaw, C. W. Alcock, J. Paul Taylor, Theodore Brown, A. Nicol Simpson, John L. C. Booth, Geo. E. Hopcroft, Mrs. I. Stuart Robson, David Bellin, Warwick M. Vardon, Rev. R. L. Bellamy, A. R. Matthews, Owen Asche, George A. Wade, Frank Jones, H. F. Hobden, Somerville Gibney, Rev. A. Allen Brockington, R. Scotland Liddell, W. E. Edwards, Clevedon Ken, Frampton Blewitt, Charles E. Benham, H. Hervey, Capt. R. T. Halliday, W. J. Cox, Argyll Saxby, A. Lakeman, Percival R. Waddy, A. Tapply, William J. Gallagher, Arthur Lee Knight, Briton Riviere, F. W. Nightingale, James H. Wood, Rev. J. Hudson, Rev B. E. Evans, Rev. J. W. H. Heslop, Arthur Lee Knight, Henry N. Shore, Charles Horner, John M. Erad, Frank McMurtrie, Major H. C. Evans, G. H. Edwards, John Lea, F. J. Baron, George Pontin, W. S. Berridge, E. Thony, N. G. Hooper, Raymond Potter, Tom Browne, A. J. Wall, M. FitzGerald, G. E. Studdy, Liddall Armitage, A. E. Burton, F. Burgess, Arthur Cooke, J. J. Bellicoe, Saville Lumley, Louis Wain, Percy V. Bradshaw, L. A. Carter, George A. Hutchison,Annuals Antiquarian]

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