Take a Cold Tub, Sir!: The Story of the 'Boy's Own Paper'

by Jack Cox

Few magazines have ever won such affection and regard as the Boy's Own Paper. In its meridian years B.O.P.'s influence reached world-wide, and its name is still a household world. First issued on January 18, 1879, price one penny, it was a modest 16-page publication produced by the Religious Tract Society in the earnest hope of counteracting the lurid penny dreadful of the day. A dedicated team set to work to create a magazine which parents and guardians...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0718825055
• ISBN13: 9780718825058
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Lutterworth Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.2" x 10.2"