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Three fantastic issues of Bibby's Annual, issues from 1915, 1916 & 1918, large sewn paperback magazines with pictorial card covers.

A world famed publication which at its height has a circulation above a million copies. Bibby's Annual was the work of Joseph Bibby, an English Industrialist and leading light of the Theosophical Society. It was well regarded, not least for its lavish use of colour illustrations, reproducing famous paintings that hung in galleries throughout the United Kingdom.

The 1916 issue features sixty-eight illustrations including; Whistler's portrait of Carlyle, Hankey's Pensive Maiden, Wright's Children of Sir Richard Arkwright, Hofmann's Christ Preaching on the Sea of Galilee, and Jesus as a Youth Among the Doctors, Watt's Sic Transit, and Millet's Gleaners, etc, etc. Twenty-five of the illustrations are in colour, four of them full-page.

The articles include Walt Whitman and the American Civil War 1861-1866, What Theosophy Stands For, The New Socialism, St Helena The Last Phase, and A Woman's Views on War, by Lady Margaret Sackville. The Annual is complete with original covers gorgeously printed on both sides.

Condition: Great for over a hundred years old!

Publisher: J. Bibby and Sons, 1915 - 1918 (Out of Print)
Number of pages: 64
Format: Soft Cover; Part Colour illustrations
Size: 11" x 16" (290mm x 400mm)