BLACK & WHITE BUDGET

2 volumes, each issue 32 pages, numerous illustrations, bound in blind stamped green cloth binding, titled gilt on the spines, which are starting to fade, a good set.

Black & White Budget was a Victorian illustrated weekly printed and published by W.J.P. Monckton in London. The first issue appeared on 14 October 1899 under the name Black & White. Thereafter it continued as Black & White Budget until 30 May 1903, after which it appeared as Black & White Illustrated Budget until 17 June 1905. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_%26_White_Budget

Jingoistic mass circulation weekly priced at two pence per copy and aimed at the newly literate lower middle class it was immediately successful. By issue number 17, February 3, 1900 the circulation had grown to 520,000 copies and by February 27, to 600,000 and the claim is made that, 'placed end to end last week's issue reached from London to Bournemouth.' The flavour of the journalism can been seen from the following description of President Kruger, '...He once called our Queen "een kwaje vrouw" (which neither sounds nor means nice), and we haven't forgotten it. He hates Chamberlain, Rhodes and Milner, just as he hates everything British, and he often preaches o' Sundays, his sermons generally being a glorification of the Boer and a sweeping damnation of the Briton. For an old man, he ought to know better.' It is profusely illustrated throughout with photographs and sketches by war artists.