vol 1 no 1, 22 Oct 1881 - no 5107, 09 Jun 1984
London,Middlesex (Jan 1882 - 1884)
Manchester,Lancashire (30 Oct 1881 - 1884)
George Newnes (1881 - 1910)
E.P. Thompson (Oct 1881)
George Newnes (founder 1881-1890+)
George Newnes Ltd
George Newnes (22 Oct 1881 - 1887)
William Evans
Grant Allen
Philip Beaufoy
Alfred Charles Harmsworth
James Joyce
George Newnes
James Payn (1889)
C. Arthur Pearson
Charles Stevens
Size:
30cm, 16pp
Price:
1d (1887, 1894, 1912)
Circulation:
900,000/no (1882); 850,000 (1889); 500,000/no (1890) Easter week: 671,000; sold 400,000-600,000/no (1881-1910)
Frequency:
weekly (Sat 1887; Wed 1912)
Illustration:
cartoons
tit-bits of information, poetry, anecdotes of gamblers, collection of excerpts (1881); answers to correspondents, editorials, social services, immigration, emigration, working class, letters, jokes, stories, crime, gossip
Orientation:
middle class
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Location:
complete runs:
LO/N-1 A;
OX/U-1 A (1881-1906); partial runs:
QZ/P-1 vols 1-50 (1881-1906);
ED/N-1 A;
LO/U-1 G;
CA/U-1;
AB/N-1 A;
N.America:
ULS 3