Spottiswoode, W. Hugh.

Winter’s Pie Being the Christmas Number of “Printers’ Pie”.

London, The Sphere & Tatler Ltd., 1914. Colour Frontispiece. 32 pages of advertisements, 112 pages, colour and black and white plates and illustrations. Original Softcover. Poor condition of the binding with strong signs of external wear. Cover damaged and in poor condition. Open tear to rear cover illustration. Front cover illustration missing. Pages separated from cover. Contains moderate foxing to edges. Pages tanned. Otherwise interior clean, no markings. Colour Pear’s Health and Beauty advertisement to rear. The illustraions inside in very good condition (see images).

Includes for example the following articles: The Count’s Christmas by William Le Queux / The “Enraged Mutton” and The Refreshers’ Club by Egerton Castle / Sketches in Song by J. Ashby-Sterry / Captain Donovan by Sir Henry Lucy / The Cab Which Was De Trop by Max Pemberton / Seamen All by Athol Forbes / Camilla’s Carols by Ethel and Adrian Ross / The Good Old Wine! by R.S. Warren Bell etc.

‘Printers’ Pie’ had started in the early years of the twentieth century as a way to raise funds for a Printers’ charity. It continued until at least 1918, sometimes twice a year, with Christmas issues called ‘Winter’s Pie’, but stopped publication soon after. The idea of Printers’ Pie as a magazine of stories and cartoons seems to date back at least to 1903, when it was (first?) published by ‘The Sphere’ to raise funds for the Printers’ Pension, Almshouse, and Orphan Asylum Corporation. The name ‘Printers’ Pie’ comes from the term used to describe unsorted type – a jumble of different letters, and the Printers’ Pension Corporation was a long-established charity. Its first Festival President was Lord John Russell in 1828 and later Presidents included Dickens, Disraeli and Gladstone amongst many other distinguished names. Over the next few years there were regular issues of Printers’ Pie, from around 1912 extended to two issues a year, with the addition of a Christmas issue under the title ‘Winter’s Pie’. The list of writers, who presumably contributed stories without being paid, includes many of the leading and most popular names of the time – A.A. Milne, A.E.W. Mason, G.K. Chesterton, Warwick Deeping, Ethel Mannin and Beverley Nichols among them. All stories are illustrated, and all illustrators credited, as are the various cartoonists contributing ‘joke drawings’. (Source: wordpress)

• Keywords: Advertising · Art – Rare · Articles · Cartoon · Cartoons · Catalogue Four – International Art · Illustrated · Illustration · Magazine · Short Stories · Short stories in English
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 200340AB

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