The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper. 1918. Vol. XCVII. No. 2510 - 2535. Pp. 1-792. |
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| Author | The Editor |
| Publisher | London: H. R. Baines and Co, 1918 |
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| Weight | 6000 gram |
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| Keywords |
Russian Revolution, Sowjet-Russia, Lenin, Trotsky, Palestine, Bolsheviks, Petrograd, J.M. Barrie, Jerusalem, World War 1, Ypres, Arras, Verdun, U-boats, Venice, Somme, tanks, air planes, Von Richthofen, Reims, Allenby, Victoria Cross |
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20946 |
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History & Archaeology (Worldwar I)
Various (Magazines)
History & Archaeology (Europe)
History & Archaeology (20th Century)
Culture History (Military)
History & Archaeology (Maritime)
History & Archaeology (Politics)
History & Archaeology (Journalism)
Sociology (Socialism/ Communism)
History & Archaeology (Women)
History & Archaeology (International relations)
Culture History (Europe)
Culture History (Russia)
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Folio (30 x 40 cm). Pp. 792 + 3 col. plates. Half-cloth with gilt-lettered spine.
This volume contains the first half of 1918 ( January 5 till June 29) of The Graphic. This Journal was founded in December, 1869 by William Luson Thomas. He was a social reformer and believed that illustrations had the power to influence public opinion on political issues, and therefore recruited a team of gifted artists. The Graphic was designed to compete with the famous London Illustrated News, founded in 1842. The Graphic, as its name implies, intended to use images in a more vivid and striking way, and it still did so in 1918. The paper covered home news and news from around the British Empire, and devoted much attention to literature, arts, sciences, the fashionable world, sport, music and opera. Royal occasions and national celebrations and ceremonials were also always given prominent coverage. The main topic of this 1918-volume is of course the “Great War”, but much attention is also given to the Russian Revolution. Five numbers of this volume are devoted to this Russian topic: No. 2510 (Jan. 5): The Beginning of the Russian Revolution: Kerensky’s Fall and the Rise of the Bolsheviks. No. 2512 (Jan 19): Guarding the Russian Dictator. Two of Lenin's Red Guards on sentry duty outside his room ( full page photograph on front page), Anarchy in Russia. Red Revolution in Russia. The Triumph of the Leninists (3 pages of photographic drawings by John Wladimiroff), Damaged Moscow: Bolshevik Havoc (2 pages of photographs). No 2513 (Jan. 26): Article “The Disintegration of Russia”, accompanied by a full-page map “Russia dismembering herself”, 2 pages with photographic portraits of the “Dramatis Personae of the Russian Revolution” (Lenin, Trotsky, Krylenko, Lunatsharsky, Kameneff &c), and again 4 pages with photographic drawings by John Wladimiroff (Plunder in the Name of Politics, Anarchy in Russia, Street fighting in Petrograd). No. 2524 (April 13): Anarchy in Russia again 5 pages with photographic drawings by John Wladimiroff (Lynch law in Petrograd; Revolution, Rapine and Robbery – Everyday Scenes in Russia; The Rival Armed Forces of Russia, accompanied by 2 reports by John Pollock and Charles Rivet. No 2525 (April 20): Anarchy in Russia, again 3 pages of photographic drawings by Wladimiroff: “Civil War in Russia, The Decline towards Chaos”. The “Great War” is given the most attention in this volume. Each number starts with an overview of the war situation of that moment: “The Way of the War”. And a great number of pages are devoted to different war-related subjects and special reports, as e.g. the situation at the Western Front ( “The First Battle of the Somme. A Bird’s-Eye View of the Ground on the Opening Morning”) and in Italy (“The Risorgimento of the Italian Army”, “Hun Vandalism in the Venetian Plain”), the warfare on the ground (“The Western Front from Ypres to Arras”, “How the British helped to hold the Line before Reims”), the new weapons (“The tanks in action. Our latest auxiliaries in repose and under fire”, “The Trench Mortar, or German Minenwerfer”), the development of airplane fighters (many double-page drawings of new British and German models, “Our Air Army for this Year: Some of our latest Machines”, “The German Airman’s Pet Machine: The Fokker Triplane”), as well as reports on the air war (“The End of the Red Baron” – Von Richthofen, “New French Planes hunting Ludendorff’s Legion”), the ruthlessness of “the Huns” (“Bombing London: The Story of a Hun”, “The ruthless Ravage of Reims”), gas warfare (“Beating the Germans at Their Own Game”), the war at sea (“Ceaseless war on the U-Boat Pirates”, “A Dreadnought cleaving its Way through the Sea”), the war heroes (“The Hero Gunner of the Daring Drifter”, “Our gallant Gunners – the Old and the New”), the contribution of women (“Women as war workers” – Dame Katherine Furse, Admiral of the “Wrens”), the participation of the Americans (“North America’s Fight for France”).. There are also many reports on the war in the Middle East against the Turks, (“Our Victorious Advance up the Euphrates”, “Striking at the Hedjaz Railway”), the situation in Palestine (“The Walls of Jericho, the Gate of Palestine”, “The entrance of Allenby – “the New Deliverer”- in Jerusalem”) and even the situation in the Far East (“Armageddon: Japan’s and China’s position in the World War”). Faithful to its tradition, these reports are emphatically pictorial, far less space is taken by the texts than by the illustrations (photographs and photographic drawings – both of them often full-page). Most of these full-page drawings are photographic-like drawings of virtual situations (“A Glimpse of the grim Fighting in the Region of Merville”), but several of them are showing patriotic heroism (“Held to the Last”, “Frances greatest award”, “A Scottish Stand: The Seaforths’ Immortal Resistance”). The pictorial aspects also dominate the explications of the front-line situations: full-page or double-page maps (with a short text underneath) explain those situations: “Where will the storm break ? The Big French Front”, “The Great Battle at Close Quarters”, “The Battle in its true Perspective”, “The real Meaning of the German Offensive: Germany’s new Verdun before Amiens”, “Paris the Prize: Where Germany is again bleeding, and what she has gained”, “The War Aims of Italy”. Among the photographs, those taken from the air (“View of battered Ypres, taken by one of our Airmen from 1100 Feet”, “The Belgian Battle-Front” with the destroyed buildings of Ypres and Dixmude) are often very impressive. Even reports on the political aspects are in the form of illustrations as e.g. a map of Europe with the caption ”Who’s who amongst the peoples of Europe: The problems that await solution”. The issue of March 23 has a stunning report on “The deliberate Destruction of a People . The frightful Tragedy of Armenia”, accompanied by a full-page map “What the defection of Russia means for Armenia – and Ourselves”. Drawings by a.o. Paul Thiriat, Ernest Prater, W. Hatherell, Geoffrey Watson, Frank Dodd and S.W. Chatworthy. Apart from the war reports, there are of course also the “normal life” reports like “Finding food in London. Making Parks and Waste Places Fruitful”, “The Opening of Parliament”, “The Visit of the Prince of Wales to his Historic Principality”, “The King and his Birthday, Some Men in the Honours List”. The Summer number (2533, June 15) has, apart from, an article by J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan) on George Robey, the music hall comedian, who raised over £500,000 for war charities by auctioneering gifts and manuscripts. Every number has a series of portraits of killed soldiers, various contributions on theatre and plays, books, pictorial art &c and every week “Motoring and Aviation” with a.o. new cars. To us the 6 to 10 pages of advertisements in each number are interesting: many on personal hygiene (Sanitas Fluid, Pears' Soap, Sotal Antiseptic Mouth Baths, Chlorodyne), health( Carter's liver Pills, Rowland's Kalydor, Cassell's Tablets, Tamar Laxatives for Constipation) and beauty (Hindes Hair Tint, Pomeroy Day Cream, Brodie's Imperial Hair Dyes), but also Gramophone Records, Officer’s Service Boots, Premier Whisky De Luxe, Player’s Navy Cut Cigarettes, Burberry Weatherproof Topcoat, Oxo Potato Cakes, Pontings of Kensington Suits, Marshall & Snelgrove Crèpe de Chine Tea Gowns, Swan Pens, Hair-Growing Outfits and even “Where to Winter. Monte Carlo. Health and Sunshine. Casino open all the Year round”, but especially those of the car factories like Rolls-Royce, Daimler, Arrol-Johnston, Lanchester, General Motors (Buick), Overland, Austin , Napier, Wolseley, Maxwell. There are 3 colour-supplements: two with the war-medals for British, French and Belgian sailors and soldiers and a double-page painting by Lilian Cheviot “The Spirit of 1918” ; three illustration pages of the Summer number have been printed in colour. Most issues have 32 pages, but a few only 28 or 30. Lower margin of the pages 70-330 with a tear/indent damage of up to 1 x 1,5 cm. Covers bit soiled, flyleaves and endpapers discontinued, but binding firm and otherwise a complete, good and well-bound volume.
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€ 450.00 |
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