Author: (Sphere).
Title: THE SPHERE An Illustrated Newspaper for the Home. Volume I. No. 2. February 3 1900 to No. 234 June 30 1900. [Lacking No. 1. January 27].
Description: , 1st Ed. Folio. Profusely ills., colour plates. Light age toning, contemporary half leather, dec. gilt spine lightly faded, minor rubbing. ¶ Superb illustrations of the Boer conflict. With Thomas Hardy’s ‘Changed Man’ first published in the above. The Sphere: An Illustrated Newspaper for the Home and, later, The Sphere: The Empire's Illustrated Weekly, was a British newspaper, published by London Illustrated Newspapers weekly from 27 January 1900 until the closure of the paper on 27 June 1964. The first issue came out at the height of the Boer War and was a product of that conflict and the public appetite for images. At the time, it was in direct competition with The Graphic and Illustrated London News, and evidence of this rivalry can be seen in the latter's publication shortly after of a new illustrated paper entitled The Spear in an attempt to confuse readers.

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