Volume V, No. 105, to Volume V, No. 113, March 1st, 1902. 9 weekly issues.
288 pages, 9 issues of 32 pages each, illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings and cartoons, original maroon cloth gilt over bevelled boards, all edges gilt.
'The King of Illustrated Papers' was one of several publications produced by George Newnes in 1900 to capitalise on the huge public interest in Britain in the Anglo-Boer War. It was immediately popular, part 1 being issued in a second edition shortly after it commenced. Taking advantage of the controversy of the time as to whether the work of war artists or photographs were the best way of pictorially recording the war the editor of The King, Walter Smith, promised ‘no imaginary drawings, only realistic photographs,’ would illustrate his magazine (Greenwall, 'Artists & Illustrators of the Anglo-Boer War', page 51).
It ran from 6th January 1900 to 28th March 1903. The issues here contain numerous references to the Anglo-Boer War but also carry general news, social and other stories.
There is a double-page article entitled “Stonewall” Kitchener’s Blockhouses (pages 74/5).
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