The Journal of The Thames. Volumes I-II (issues 1-57)
SIGNED BY CONTRIBUTORS
The Lock to Lock Times The Journal of The Thames. Volumes I-II (issues 1-57)
1888.
Two volumes comprising the first 57 issues (9 June 1888 - 3 July 1889), bound in original publisher's dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper cover. Across the front free endpapers of the two volumes, there are nine signatures, including those of the newspaper editior Willie Mudford, the author A.S. Krausse and the illustrator H.S. Strange-Buxton. Illustrated throughout. A near fine set.
The Lock to Lock Times was founded in 1888 with the object of supplying the long-felt want of an organ of news concerning the doings of Boating-men, Artists, Anglers, and that large class of persons who frequent the River Thames. The venture was from the first a conspicuous success. During the first twelve months of its existence, the proprietors found it necessary to twice increase the size of the paper, while the number of illustrations was at the same time considerably added to - Advert in Krausse's Pictorial History of the Thames.
The journal, founded to capitalise on the late Victorian popularity of boating was published weekly until 1915. All issues are now very rare.
The signatures to each volume are presumably from the magazine's contributors. Most articles in the magazine are anonymous, by Krausse's Pictorial History Of The River Thames (1889) was original serialised in The Lock To Lock Times through 1888 (the first volume here).
Cohen p.233
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