Magazines Collection

Astounding Stories Scifi magazine cover, Shadow out of Time
THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME (H P Lovecraft) - Peaslee encounters the Great Race

Advertisement for The Graphic
A striking advertisement for weekly illustrated magazine, The Graphic (founded 1869 by William Luson Thomas), showing a busy street scene with buses and trams advertising the paper

Spring-Heeled Jack winged monster
Winged man-monster who terrified residents of Blackheath and other London suburbs from 1837 for many years but was never caught Date: 1830s

The Huntsman, painting by W Smithson Broadhead
Colour photograph in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of 24th October 1925 of The Huntsman painting by W Smithson Broadhead. Date: 24th October 1925

Amazing Stories scifi magazine cover, The Mad Robot
THE MAD ROBOT by William P McGivern. A brave man fires a ray-gun at an advancing metal robot with large claws and a brain encassed in a glass-domed head Date: 1944

Photo of The Dolly Sisters
Black and white photograph of popular revue stars the Dolly Sisters in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of 19th December 1925

Amazing Stories Scifi Magazine Cover with Hidden Lunar City
HIDDEN CITY by Chesters Geier. Two spacemen spot a hidden circular city rising out of a crater on a seemingly deserted moon Date: 1947

Eric Liddell celebrating his Olympic win at Edinburgh Univer
Eric Liddell, the 400m gold medallist at the 1924 Paris Olympic Games, crowned and chaired at Edinburgh University where he had studied science

London Life front cover 1966 featuring Julie Christie
Front cover of the impossibly groovy London Life magazine which ran for just two years between 1965 and 1966 but chronicled the life and times of swinging sixties London

Tatler front cover, horse racing Ascot, 1955
Front cover of The Tatler featuring an elegant couple spectating at the races. Date: 1955

Amazing Stories scifi magazine cover, Robot and lion
Testing a robot for a space mission by having it fight a lion - a scene from J Schlassels To the Moon by proxy Date: 1928

Tatler front cover: Duchess of York and Princess Elizabeth
The Tatler front cover featuring a photograph of the Duchess of York (later Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother) with Princess Elizabeth of York (later Queen Elizabeth II) taken in July 1927

Mad Metal Robot
THE MAD ROBOT by William P McGivern. A brave man fires a ray-gun at an advancing metal robot with large claws and a brain encassed in a glass-domed head Date: 1944

Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1906
Front cover of The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1906 with an illustration of a young girl trying to force feed her terrier dog Christmas pudding. Date: 1906

Bystander front cover - Summer Number 1933
Striking front cover of The Bystander magazine for 7 June 1933, with a design by Leon Benigni featuring fashionable spectators at the racing, probably Ascot. Date: 1933

Daily Sketch front cover - 1953 Coronation
Front cover of the Daily Sketch magazine from June 3rd 1953, the day after the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II with a photograph of the duke of Edinburgh paying homage to his wife after the ceremony

Monster Tsetse Fly, Amazing Stories Scifi Magazine Cover
THE EGGS FROM TANGANYIKA - A warship is attacked by a monster tsetse fly Date: 1926

London Life front cover, 1966
Front cover of London Life magazine, the cool but short-lived magazine which epitomised the spirit of swinging sixties London

Sibylla Edmondstone
Miss Sibylla Edmondstone, of Duntreath Castle, Scotland pictured on the front cover of London Life, the impossibly groovy but short-lived magazine which captured the mood and spirit of the 1960s

The Flower Market Of The Madeleine by Blampied
An illustration by Edmund Blampied of a bustling flower market at the Place de la Madeleine in Paris. Blampied (1886-1966) drew countless illustrations for the ILN magazines

Thrilling Wonder Stories Scifi Magazine Cover, Giant Ants
HANDS ACROSS THE VOID - The giant ants of Titan help the Earth travellers against their enemies

London Life front cover, 1966
The cover of London Life from 31st December 1966 featuring a colourful array of previous magazine covers from this title. Date: 1966

The Tatler front cover August 1962
A model wearing typical sixties make up and with a smart, blonde bob strikes an arrogant pose on the front cover of The Tatler while wearing a choker of pearls. 1962

Bystander cover 1929 featuring Diana Mitford
Front cover of The Bystander featuring a photograph of the Hon. Diana Freeman-Mitford (1910-2003), third daughter of Lord and Lady Redesdale and one of the six infamous Mitford sisters

Tatler front cover, May 1962
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a model wearing typical 1960s makeup. The lipstick is Cardinal by Lancome and the dramatic eyes use spangled Pailettes D Or and turquoise eyeshadow by Perle Dore

Tatler front cover, 9 March 1960
Front cover of the Tatler featuring a photograph of a woman, eating breakfast while arranging to meet friends over the telephone. 1960

Evening in Soho
Men stroll and gaze into shop windows on an early evening in St Annes Court, Soho, London Date: 1960s

Tatler cover: Duchess of Sutherland
Millicent Fanny Sutherland-Leveson Gower- [ne Millicent Fanny St Clair-Erskine], duchess of Sutherland (1867-1955), society hostess and social reformer

Savoy Hotel
Panorama of London down the Mall towards the Savoy Hotel on the cover of the Illustrated London News in 1914

The Modern Boy front cover - Nelson polar bear attack
Front cover of The Modern Boy featuring an illustration showing Horatio Nelson when young fighting off an attack from a polar bear when his ship was frozen in ice in the Arctic. Date: 1932

Tatler cover - The Hon. Lady Mosley, Diana Mitford
The Hon. Lady Mosley, formerly Mrs Bryan Guinness and before that, Diana Freeman Mitford (1910-2003), one of the notorious Mitford sisters

Photo of Miss Alice Delysia
Black and white photograph in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of 21st November 1925 showing Miss Alice Delysia in On with the Dance at the London Pavilion. Date: 21st November 1925

Le Miroir des Modes front cover - art deco woman & goldfish
Front cover of French fashion magazine, Le Miroir des Modes featuring a woman in a draped red patterned day dress alongside a glass sphere or bowl of goldfish. Date: c.1920

Silhouettes of a fox hunt in the York and Ainsty country
Black and white silhouette pictures by Captain H L Oakley in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of 12th December 1925

Amazing Stories Scifi magazine cover - Futuristic Human Cloning
THE 4-SIDED TRIANGLE, by William F Temple. A scientist clones the body of a young woman in his laboratory in this futuristic science fiction magazine cover 1939

Startling Stories Scifi Magazine Cover with Science Island
SCIENCE ISLAND (Eando Binder)A cold-blooded Scientific Napoleon with the Brain of a Genius and a Body of Metal threatens to Dominate Mankind Date: 1939

The Savoy, volume I by Aubrey Beardsley
Cover design by Aubrey Beardsley for The Savoy, volume 1, published by Leonard Smithers in 1896. In this version the putto is about to relieve himself on a copy of The Yellow Book

London Life cover - On the Level - 1960s fashions
Front cover of London Life magazine showing three cast members from a new musical, On The Level (about a GCE scandal) which opened in London on 19 April 1966

Startling Stories scifi magazine cover - Green-headed Aliens
THE THREE PLANETEERS, by Edmond Hamilton. Two green-headed aliens, fly a spacecraft whilst under fire from groups of humans with ray-guns Date: 1940

Thrilling Wonder Stories scifi magazine cover - THE IONIAN CYCLE
THE IONIAN CYCLE (William Tenn) A space traveller from Earth encounters some interesting fauna emerging from eggs, pods, shells or whatever. Date: 1948

Tatler front cover, 1958
Front cover of The Tatler for April 1958 featuring a model wearing a hat, or Easter bonnet, by French designer Pierre Cardin, using yards of wide-mesh net, swathed on a white

London Life front cover 1965, Peter Blake, Nell Dunn
Front cover of London Life magazine featuring artwork by Peter Blake, a photograph of the playwright Nell Dunn and news of a folk festival. Date: 1965

Conquest of the Earth, Amazing Stories Scifi Magazine Cover
THE CONQUEST OF THE EARTH - An invader from Andromeda describes his home Date: 1930

By Jove, Alien Entity, Amazing Stories Scifi Magazine Cover
By Jove! - denizens of Ganymede, satellite of Jupiter Date: 1937

Amazing Stories Scifi magazine cover, The Golden Planetoid
THE GOLDEN PLANETOID - A mysterious alien spacecraft lands in the Russian steppes Date: 1935

Red Hell of Jupiter, Astounding Stories Scifi magazine cover
THE RED HELL OF JUPITER - The Planetary Explorers disintegrate the Rogans with the death tube Date: 1931

Jackie Kennedy carrying London Life magazine
Jacqueline Kennedy, during a visit to London in 1966 is photographed carrying a copy of " London Life magazine which ran for just two years between 1965 and 1966 but chronicled the life

London Life front cover with Paris fashions
Front cover of the impossibly groovy London Life magazine which ran for just two years between 1965 and 1966 but chronicled the life and times of swinging sixties London

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