This release includes graphics from a 1905 McLure's Magazine printing of With The Night Mail, from its publication as a chapbook in 1909, and from its publication in The Windsor Magazine. The artists were Frank X. Leyendecker, H. Reuterdahl, and H.C. Seppings Wright.
Christopher Beiting very kindly located these books in the Bodelian Library, and made copies which were scanned into this collection for the first releases. Unfortunately the graphics deteriorated badly in copying and in subsequent scanning.
I subsequently obtained a copy of the chapbook and replaced most of the illustrations with the colour artwork, scanned at 600 DPI, edited, then reduced to 150 DPI. This procedure allowed the illustrations to be "cleaned up" in various ways, since the paper was yellowing and a little stained. In particular, the inside cover is a composite, made from separate images of its two halves, and has been edited to remove some writing and other damage. I have done my best to avoid unnecessary edits, and colours etc. are hopefully as near as possible to the original intentions of the artists.
I have since obtained the relevant issue of The Windsor Magazine and added its illustrations; three of its pictures had previously appeared in McClure's Magazine, although one was in colour in its first use. I've added links to the duplicates, and a scan of the colour illustration from McClure's Magazine, though I think that the monochrome picture is marginally clearer.
The advertisements were scanned from Actions and Reactions as 600 DPI monochrome then converted to 150 DPI grey-scale for a more readable image. The last advertisement is another composite, with a large gap between the two halves edited out.
Windsor Magazine Illustrations
McClure's Magazine Illustrations
The story is now illustrated with smaller versions of the colour pictures from the chapbook, reduced to varying degrees to be easily viewable on screen, and illustrations from its publication in both magazines.
A very large painting for one of the colour illustrations for the chap-book is on line at Wikimedia commons.
Chapbook cover
Unsigned (colour)
Chapbook, inside cover.
FXL (colour)
"A man with a ghastly scarlet head follows, shouting that he must go back and build up his ray."
Chapbook. FXL (colour)
"Slides like a lost soul down that pitiless ladder of light, and the Atlantic takes her"
Chapbook. HR (colour)
The Storm
Chapbook. FXL (colour)
"I've asked him to tea on Friday"
Chapbook. FXL (colour)
"She falls stern-first; slides like a lost soul down that pitiless ladder of light."
From The Windsor Magazine and McLure's Magazine. HR (monochrome)
"The Mark Boat hangs herself up in her appointed place in the skies."
From The Windsor Magazine. HCSW (monochrome)
"She passed slowly beneath us, heading northward."
From The Windsor Magazine. HCSW (monochrome)
"On the upper staging a little hooded figure stretched arms wide towards her father"
From The Windsor Magazine. HR (monochrome)
"On the upper staging a little hooded figure stretched arms wide towards her father"
From McLure's Magazine. HR (colour)
"A man with a ghastly scarlet head follows, shouting that he must go back and build up his ray."
From McLure's Magazine. HR (monochrome)
"She falls stern-first; slides like a lost soul down that pitiless ladder of light."
From McLure's Magazine. HR (monochrome)
The advertisements can be found in later editions of the story, but there are some minor variations in typography. These .GIF files show the original published layout:
Miscellaneous - Wants - Bee-Line Bookshop
Safety Wear For Aeronauts - Hansen's Flickers
Appliances For Air Planes - Collison - Weaver & Denison
Air Planes And Dirigible Goods - Standard Dig - L. &. W. Powell - Standard Dig - Gayer & Hutt
Air Planes And Dirigibles - CMC - Resurgam - Standard Dig
Bat-Boats - Flint & Mantel
Air Planes And Starters - Hinks Moderator - J.D. Ardagh
Accessories and spares - Christian Wright & Oldis
As Easy As A.B.C. was originally published in The London Magazine in March and April 1912. This included several illustrations:
With the exception of the cover all of these illustrations were scanned from a bound volume of The London Magazine; the cover picture is derived from a small picture found on line, corrected for various errors in perspective etc.
