The Idler. Seven Volumes. 1892 to 1895.

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Green cloth binding with gilt title on the spine and front board. Dimensions are for one volume. We provide an in-depth photographic presentation of this item to stimulate your feeling and touch. More traditional book descriptions are immediately available. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Jerome, Jerome K. and Robert Barr, editors. The Idler magazine : an illustrated monthly. Bindings are good overall. Authors include Twain, Bret Harte, Conan Doyle, Maupassant and many others. The Idler was an illustrated monthly magazine published in Great Britain from 1892 to 1911. It was founded by the author Robert Barr, who brought in the humorist Jerome K. Jerome as co-editor, and its contributors included many of the leading writers and illustrators of the time. The Idler generally catered to the popular taste, printing light pieces and sensational fiction. The magazine published short stories, serialized novels, humour pieces, poetry, memoirs, travel writing, book and theatre reviews, interviews and cartoons. It also included a monthly feature called 'The Idlers' Club,' in which a number of writers would offer their views on a particular topic. Most of The Idler's contributors were popular and prolific writers of the time. Some of them, such as Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain and Ernest Bramah, are still read today. Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelog Three Men in a Boat (1889). Other works include the essay co

• Publisher: Chatto & Windus.
• Year: 1892
• Binding: hardcover

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