Shelfmark
Macn tbs
Title
The Ruhleben Camp magazine.
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Berlin] : J.S. Preuss, printer by appointment to the royal court, 1916-1917.
Physical description
6 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note
Description based on; No. 1 (Mar. 1916); title from cover.
Note
Latest issue consulted: "Christmas 1916".
Note
Continues: In Ruhleben Camp.
Note
Each number in original printed wrappers.
Provenance
Tipped in AL to A. E. Lechmere in copying pencil signed 'Chairman' [of the Festival committee], identified in pencil as A. C. Ford, 4 May 1916, following Shakespeare Tercentenary Festival ephemera; tipped-in printed reproduction of drawing depicting Lechmere at 'the biological laboratory, Ruhleben Camp School' by Gerald Tooby (illustration also in Christmas number of magazine), signed in ink by Lechmmere with date July 1917 and explanatory caption. Arthur Eckley Lechmere was a student of biology and electrical engineering who was studying mycology in Munich when the war broke out.
Binding
Contemporary brown morocco half binding; five raised bands; ?recent maroon spine labels in second and fifth compartments; gilt-tooled device repeated in other compartments; buff paper boards; stamp of A. E. Lechmere on lower turn-in of front board; original wrappers retained.
Copy-specific note
ECL holdings: no. 1 (March 1916)- no. 5 (Christmas 1916); wanting no. 6 (June 1917).
Copy-specific note
Bound with: La vie française de Ruhleben, nos. 1-3 (1916)
Copy-specific note
Bound also with: Tercentenary Shakespeare Festival programme, Ruhleben Camp, 1916 with cast and scene order for 'Twelfth Night', folded bifolium; 'Othello' cast and scene order with details of Shakespeare Festival concert and lecture series, April 1916, folded bifolium; Ruhleben Camp School prospectus, winter session 1915, 8 p.; Ruhleben Camp School prospectus, autumn term 1916, 15, [1] p., ill.
Copy-specific note
Loosely inserted at p. 33 of no. 1: cutting from unidentified newspaper dated in red ink "1/3/83" containing obituary of Sir John Balfour [an intern in the camp]; loosely inserted at p. 47 of no. 5, cutting from unidentified newspaper dated in blue ink "31/8/77" containing obituary of George Merritt [an intern in the camp].
Subject
Subject
Subject
World War, 1914-1918 Periodicals.
Subject
World War, 1914-1918 Prisoners and prisons, German.
Added entry--name
Lechmere, Arthur Eckley associated name.
Added entry--name
Ruhleben (Concentration camp) publisher, binder.
Added entry--place
Germany Berlin.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B53447