To the British Library again, where I had a look at Robert William Cole's other books, which are even more obscure than The Struggle For Empire. I was hoping that one or more would be another scientific romance, but no such luck. Quick synopses (bearing in mind that I skimmed them fairly quickly):

His Other Self: The Story of a Man with a Past - ( Read more... )

Not sure why I never knew this - there was an illustrated publication of Kipling's As Easy As A.B.C., the sequel to With the Night Mail, in the London Magazine of March and April 1912.

If anyone happens to come across this, I would really love to get hold of a copy!

Four pictures - three of them new to me. I've previously seen the first of the pictures following as a colour version in the chapbook. Four fairly large gifs behind the cut. The only other illustration in the magazine is the one of several people being rescued from a wrecked dirigible, which I previously had - unfortunately time has not been kind ( Read more... )

Today's pleasant surprise was a damaged volume of the Windsor magazine for 1906 I won on eBay at the weekend... pleasant because it was VERY cheap, and pleasant and surprising because it turns out to be the 1905-1906 volume, with the first issue December 1905 ( Read more... )