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It looks like I won't be able to add images from The Haunted Jarvee at present, if they exist at all. This is due to a series of mistakes...

Back when I originally wrote my Carnacki sourcebook I appear to have been given a 1912 date for this story (or misunderstood something and gave the wrong date). This turns out to be a mistake - The Premier Magazine, in which it appeared, was first published in 1912, and the date I gave was the first issue. Unfortunately the story was published posthumously, in March 1929.

The British Library's catalogue entry for this magazine gave me the impression that they had the full run on microfilm - this turns out to be incorrect, they only have February 1917 to December 1921. The catalogue has now been amended to make this clearer.

I think that back in the 1990s I was told that this had no illustrations - unfortunately I can't currently check, since I can't find a copy of the issue in question. But if someone out there has access to a magazine collection that includes it I would be VERY grateful if you could take a look and let me have photos or scans of any illustrations. If there is artwork, info on the artist would be useful.

Update: It looks like the Bodelian Library may have it - Periodical Issues 753761697 - in their closed stack. I have no idea how I can get to look at this; is there some way to request a scan or something?

Many thanks!

In a comment on my last post i_kender pointed out that the British Library has put a shedload of illustrations from books on line for free use, as a huge flickr set.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/

For example, one of the first I found was a larger version of this:

an illustration from The Angel of the Revolution - I have larger versions on the FF CD-ROM, but there isn't room on my web site.

At the moment the quantity is vast and tagging is minimal, actually finding anything is difficult. But if enough people take an interest it ought to eventually be a very useful resource.

An engagingly loopy and (despite appearing in April 1903) I suspect seriously-intended proposal to build a an enduring tomb and monument of the Empire in London.

http://forgottenfutures.com/library/monument/monument.htm

Anyone else get a strong Stargate vibe off the illustrations?

The reason I'm currently putting so much on line is that someone has sent me a long list of articles that seem to fit my selection criteria for Forgotten Futures, which I've somehow previously missed, and is helping with the scanning. It won't necessarily last...

Thanks to the awesome book-finding abilities of Brian from Porcupine Books WINOLJ I have just ordered a bound volume of Harmsworth's London Magazine containing the original illustrated version of Kipling's As Easy as A.B.C.. It was serialised in March-April 1912, and is one of the stories that the first Forgotten Futures release was based on. It's coming from Canada so will take a while, but if all goes well I hope to have the illos on line in a month or so, and really high resolution scans on the next Forgotten Futures CD-ROM. Someone recently listed the first of the two issues on ebay at a ridiculously high price, £400, which is what prompted me to start asking about them - Brian found the bound volume (6 issues) in less than a day, and at less than a tenth the price including transatlantic postage!

Incidentally, the ebay listing includes a couple of pictures showing illos - I won't have the cover, they weren't included in the bound volumes, but the rest of it looks very cool:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/itm/281147862146

I'll post again when I have it on line.