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Jackson, Holbrook (Editor) : To-Day. Vol. VI. No. 35. January 1920

Holbrook Jackson, London, England, 1920

Original publisher's white wrappers. 5 1/2" x 8." Pages 161-200, complete. Black and white illustrations, complete. Fourteen additional pages of advertisements in the front and back. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Covers have some wear and chipping along the edges and at the head and tail of the spine. Printed by The Complete Press. Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948) was a British writer, publisher, and journalist. He was a prominent bibliophile in his time and worked with other leading figures in the literary field including A. R. Orage and George Bernard Shaw. During his career, Jackson took part in many literary and intellectual organizations such as the Leeds Arts Club, the Fabian Society, the Flying Fame Press, and the Pelican Press. In 1911, Jackson worked at T. P. O'Connor's T. P. Weekly, a literary newspaper. In 1914, he took over as editor and later bought the newspaper and changed it to his own magazine, To-Day. To-Day was published from 1917 to 1923 after which it merged with Life and Letters, a literary journal that was published until 1935. To-Day is a monthly literary magazine and includes a variety of features such as prose, essays, poetry, and artwork. Printed on the front cover: "This number of 'To-Day' contains poems by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Kenelm Foss, Douglas Ainslie, Geoffrey Pinnock, Teresa Hooley, and Emma Capon; essays by Eden Phillpotts, Canon Langbridge, Francis Bickley, S. P. B. Mais, B. I. Howe, Guenn F. Newnham, Bernard Lintot, and the editor; and a caricature of Bernard Shaw by Edmond X. Kapp." The Contents are listed as the following: "Mr. Bernard Shaw" [frontispiece] by Edmond X. Kapp, "Words" by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, "Pernicious Literature" by Holbrook Jackson, "The Mill" by Geoffrey Pinnock, "Epigram" by Douglas Ainslie, "The Fauns" by Eden Phillpotts, "The Cross-Roads" by Kenelm Foss, "The Art of Mr. J. D. Beresford" by S. P. B. Mais, "Jack" by Emma Capon, "Maxims and Precepts" by the Duke de La Rochefoucauld, "Wisdom Is a Dark Horse" by Canon Langbridge, "Lascelles Abercrombie" by Francis Bickley, "On Mirrors, and One in Particular" by B. I. Howe, "Dickens and the Motor-Bus" by Guenn F. Newnham, "Sea Foam" by Teresa Hooley, and "End Papers: The Great War for Poetic Freedom" by Bernard Lintot.. Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Binding: Soft cover

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