This release includes graphics from a 1905 McLure's Magazine printing of With The Night Mail, and from its publication as a chapbook in 1909. The artists were Frank X. Leyendecker and H. Reuterdahl
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 were printed in colour, and deteriorated badly in copying (on a monochrome copier; colour was not available) and in subsequent scanning.
I have now been able to obtain a copy of the chapbook and replace 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.
The advertisements were scanned 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.
The story is now illustrated by smaller versions of the colour pictures, reduced to varying degrees to be easily viewable on screen.
"A man with a ghastly scarlet head follows, shouting that he must go back and build up his ray."
From the first magazine appearance. HR (monochrome)
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)
The advertisements can be found in most 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