1936-1939 The London Mercury and Bookman

Description

First Edition, Illustrated

Six issues in the publisher's original paper wraps.

The London Mercury was a major literary journal, published monthly from 1919 to 1939. This collection comprises of six issues published between 1936 and 1939, when Rolfe Arnold Scott-James was editor, and consequently provides an important commentary on the literary scene of the interwar period in Britain.

With illustrations by Mervyn Peake, Cecil Beaton, Paul Nash, John Constable and many more.

This collection comprises:
Vol. 34; No. 203; September 1936. Illustrated with 4 plates. Contributions by Ford Madox Ford, Phyllis Bentley, Edmund Blunden, etc.
Vol. 34; No. 204; October 1936. Illustrated with 4 plates. Contributions by W. H. Auden, Bernard Shaw, Martin Armstrong, etc.
Vol. 35; No. 206; December 1936 (Christmas issue). Illustrated with 12 plates. Contributions by Walter de la Mare, Ford Madox Ford, C. Day Lewis, etc.
Vol. 36; No. 212; June 1937. Illustrated with 4 plates. Contributions by Evelyn Waugh, George Barker, William Plomer, etc.
Vol. 37; No. 221; March 1938. Illustrated with 4 plates. Contributions by C. Day Lewis, Forrest Reid, W. B. Yeats, etc.
Vol. 39; No. 233; March 1939. Illustrated with 4 plates. Contributions by W. B. Yeats, H. W. Nevinson, J. M. Hone, etc.

Collated, complete.

The London Mercury purchased the smaller title The Bookman in 1935, but by late 1938 the magazine was losing money. In March 1939, a deal was made to incorporate The London Mercury and The Bookman with the more successful title Life and Letters To-day owned by the Brendin Publishing Company.