War's Brighter Side. The story of "The Friend" edited by the correspondents with Lord Roberts's forces, March-April 1900 (1901)

Julian Ralph's co-editors of The Friend in 1900 were Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and H A Gwynne. 

The Chapter I summary reads: "Showing how it was fathered by a Field Marshal, sponsored by a Duke and three Lords, and given over to four certificated male nurses." 

See the images for much of the story.

Publisher's original royal-blue cloth-boards, gilt to the spine and - to the upper panel - colour facsimiles of the obverse and reverse of a badge made for the newspaper's editors, plain endpapers, top page-edge gilt, the other edges uncut, "The Editors at Work" as frontispiece, xv, including a letter from Lord Roberts to Lord Stanley about The Friend, + 422 pp of text, index and colophon + 2 pp of publisher's announcements + 14 other inserted plates on art-paper.

CONDITION. This is a complete and better than very good copy overall. The boards and binding are near-fine, though with the spine-ends lightly bumps, and the gilt and other colours are bright. The endpapers are lightly sunned. Barry Bolus's bookplate is on the front paste-down. Unmarked and undiscoloured.

The colourful birth of Bloemfontein's fine newspaper, which still survives.