Cover Collection (page 94)

Paris: Le Mot 1914-1915 Bound folio
Paris: Le Mot. 1914-1915. Bound folio with a book cover by A.G. Gonon and a book plate for H.P. Gassier (French cartoonist - 1883-1951)

Silver matchbook cover with the enamelled badge of the 9th Lancers, dated Christmas 1915. Manufactured by the firm of Percy Edwards & Company. Commemorative Ware

Matchbox cover inscribed In memoriam - Kitchener, WW1
Matchbox cover inscribed " In memoriam - Kitchener, born 24th June 1850, drowned 5th June 1916. He did his duty." Trench Art

When the Soldier is Away, by Barry Pain, WW1
Front cover design by Harry Furniss (1854-1925) for a First World War book entitled When the Soldier is Away, by Barry Pain

St Dunstans periscope made by blind patients
A St. Dunstans periscope made by blind patients of St. Dunstans Hospital. Retaining original paper cover printed St. Dunstans Periscope. Made by a war-blinded man. Firearms & Equipment

Miniature portrait of a London Scottish Regiment soldier set into a 15 carat gold circular locket. Cover of the locket is engraved with the badge of the London Scottish Regiment. Dated 31.8.18

Sketch cover - Duke of Westminster, hero of a VC action
Front cover of The Sketch magazine featuring, Major Hugh Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster (1879 - 1953), known as Bendor (or Bend Or, after his fathers winning racehorse)

Sketch cover - The Arm Chair critic, WW1
Front cover of The Sketch magazine featuring an illustration of an arm-chair critic, one of the satirised stereotypes of the First World War - a club man type who who likes to read the papers

The Kangaroo Marines by Captain R W Campbell, WW1
Book Cover mounted on card - The Kangaroo Marines by Captain R W Campbell - Author of Private Spud Tamson (published by Cassell)

Sketch cover, Georges Carpentier & Gunboat Smith, 1914
Front cover of the Sketch magazine featuring a photograph of the much-publicised boxing match at Olympia between the Frenchman

German battery under a searchlight, 1914
The searchlight in operation - a German battery thrown into relief by a searchlight of the Allied armies in the Aisne region of France. They make frantic efforts to escape the ghostly beam. Date: 1914

Sketch cover - King George V & Albert I, end of WW1
Front cover of The Sketch showing King George V and King Albert of the Belgians stopping for an impromptu snack using a railway truck as a table at Zeebrugge, shortly after the Armistice. Date: 1918

Sketch cover, Emily Drange at Britannia
Front cover of The Sketch magazine featuring a photograph of American actress, Emily Drange in costume as Britannia. She was part of a patriotic tableau staged in New York

Sketch cover, Mrs Vernon Castle (Irene Castle)
IRENE CASTLE (nee FOOTE) Dancer, with her husband Vernon Castle known as Americas Dancing Sweethearts. Pictured on the front cover of The Sketch as " The Spirit of France

Sketch cover, Miss Billie Carleton
Front cover of The Sketch featuring a portrait of Billie Carleton English musical comedy actress during the First World War

Bradford workhouse concert programme cover
The cover of the programme for a choral concert given in 1904 to inmates at the Bradford Union workhouse in West Yorkshire

Petit Echo de la Mode Jan 1941
Front cover of Petit Echo de la Mode, a French fashion magazine, depicting the profile of a blonde woman in an elegant red and black hat. Date: 1941

Delineator Jan 1928
Delineator magazine January 1928, depicting a fashionable woman with skis, in an alpine scene Date: 1928

The Bystander on HMS Vigilant, WW1
A snapshot of the mascot of H.M.S. " Vigilant, " a chameleon, endeavouring to adapt the colour of his skin to the variegated hues of the cover of The Bystander magazine

George V
Death of the Late King George V (1865 - 1936), front cover of The Illustrated London News showing George V in military uniform

Tatler cover - Charlie Chaplin in A Dogs Life
Front cover of The Tatler featuring worlds greatest cinema artist, Charlie Chaplin appearing in a scene from his latest film, A Dogs Life. Date: 1918

Tatler cover - Mrs Burleigh Leach
Front cover of The Tatler magazine featuring a portrait of Mrs Burleigh Leach, wife of Brigadier-General Burleigh Leach and Controller of Inspection

Tatler cover - Duchess of Buccleuch
Front cover of The Tatler magazine featuring a portrait of the Duchess of Buccleuch, wife of the 7th Duke and formerly Lady Margaret (Molly) Bridgeman

Henry Fawcett (1833 1884) British economist, politician & Cambridge professor, accidentally blinded. Husband of Millicent Garrett Fawcatt

Petit Echo de la Mode Oct 1941
Front cover of Petit Echo de la Mode, a French fashion magazine, depicting a fashionable lady in a cream costume. Date: 1941

Royal Field Artillery Gunner 1914
A lone Royal Field Artillery Gunner continues to load and fire his gun, with the dead bodies of his three comrades (four men worked each gun) lying around him. Date: August 1914

German infantry uniform
The typical uniform of the German infantryman at the beginning of World War One, a predominantly blue-grey uniform with the distinctive pickelhaube helmet made less conspicuous by the addition of a

Tatler cover - Yvonne Fitzroy, WW1
Yvonne FitzRoy (1891-1971), actress and society figure on the front cover of The Tatler magazine in 1917. She was a theatre actress before the First World War

Tatler cover - Alice Delysia
Front cover of The Tatler magazine featuring two photographs of the French actress and singer, Alice Delysia (1889-1979), born Alice Henriette Lapize, at the time she was appearing in As You Were

Tatler cover - Mrs Dudley Coats
Mrs Dudley Coats, formerly Miss Audrey Evelyn James (1902-1968), society beauty and friend of the Prince of Wales. Married Captain Muir Coats of the Scots Guards in 1922 and divorced him in 1927

Sketch cover, George Robey in Bing Boys on Broadway, WW1
Front cover of The Sketch featuring George Robey as U-Ka-Lip-Tus, Chief of the Wah Wahs in a scene from The Bing Boys on Broadway, playing at the Alhambra

Sketch cover, Lady D Abernon as an anaesthetist, WW1
Front cover of The Sketch magazine featuring a portrait of Helen Venetia Vincent, Viscountess D Abernon (nÚÑáDuncombe) (18661954), British peeress, socialite and diarist

The 1918 Girl by Edmund Blampied
Sketch front cover featuring an illustration of a pretty woman trying on a new hat in the shape of the New Year, 1918. Date: 1918

Generals French and Joffre at the Front, 1914
General French and General Joffre directing operations at the Western Front in October 1914 : " you never know where they are... very often only a single sentry betrays their temporary shelter

Trench in sand dunes, Northern France, 1914
Allied soldiers standing in a trench in sand dune country in Northern France, 1914. Date: October 1914

Tatler cover - King Albert of Belgium
Front cover of The Tatler magazine featuring a photograph of King Albert I of Belgium, taken just behind the front by Mr N. Speaight wearing uniform

Tatler internal cover, 22nd July 1914
An internal cover of The Tatler, dated 22nd July 1914. A monocled gentleman regards advertisements for Schoolbreds electric lighting, the Royal Hotel Whitby

Chinese Civil War
An anti " red" gunner ready to load a stokes trench-mortar. At the time the warring parties are divided into two group, on the one side, the northern " anti-Red" allies

Sketch front cover, Gaby Deslys in Rosy Rapture
Front cover of The Sketch magazine featuring French actress and music hall artiste, Gaby Deslys, in the role of Lady Lil in the J. M. Barrie burlesque, Rosy Rapture, which was a popular show in 1915

Tatler cover - Charlie Chaplin
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a portrait of Charlie Chaplin (Sir Charles Spencer) English comedian and actor (1889-1977)

Cover design, London Magazine, August, one shilling, with a woman in a black swimming costume and a red scarf on her head. Containing stories by Chesterton, Baroness Orczy, Elinor Glyn and others

Siege of Antwerp, World War One, 1914 - animals looked after
The Siege of Antwerp, Belgium, early in the First World War - thought for beast as well as man. Although the people were running short of water, they allowed this dog to have his drink from the pail

Tatler Christmas front cover, 1918
Front cover of The Tatler magazines Christmas number, 1918, featuring two graceful ballerina dancers flanking a sentry on guard (who looks quite surprised to see them there). Date: 1918

The Origin of Species
Foreign-language first editions of some of the works of Charles Darwin, the British-born naturalist and writer

Darwin first editions
First editions of some of the works of Charles Darwin, the British-born naturalist and writer

Edward VII and Alexandra silver wedding anniversary 1888
Front cover of Christian Herald and Signs of our Times, showing portraits of Edward VII and Alexandra, on their silver wedding anniversary, with their five children

Sketch cover, Captain Loxleys faithful dog, WW1
Front cover of The Sketch magazine featuring a portrait of Bruce, the faithful Irish terrier belonging to Captain Noel Loxley of H.M.S Formidable

The Bishop of London, Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram KCVO PC
Front-cover of The Sketch featuring The Bishop of London (1858-1946), who was Chaplain to the London Rifle Brigade and London Royal Naval Volunteers from 1901

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