Wikipedia:
The Wide World Magazine was a British monthly illustrated publication which ran from April 1898 to December 1965.
The magazine was founded by well-known publisher George Newnes, also famous for Tit-Bits, The Strand Magazine, Country Life and others.
It described itself as "an illustrated magazine of true narrative" and each month purported to feature "true-life" adventure and travel stories gathered from around the world. Its motto was "Truth is stranger than fiction".
Some famous names occasionally wrote for the magazine (such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Morton Stanley, Douglas Reeman etc.), and it was copiously illustrated with photographs, as well as black and white drawings by such artists as Terence Cuneo, Cecil Stuart Tresilian, Alfred Pearse, Chas Sheldon, Paul Hardy, William Barnes Wollen, John L. Wimbush, Charles J. Staniland, Joseph Finnemore, John Charlton, Warwick Goble, Tom Browne, Ernest Prater, Gordon Browne, Edward S Hodgson, Norman H. Hardy, Inglis Sheldon Williams, and Harry Rountree.
The May 1913 issue contained the first reports of the death of notorious outlaw Butch Cassidy in Bolivia.
The Times, in retrospect, humorously described the magazine as about "brave chaps with large moustaches on stiff upper lips, who did stupid and dangerous things."
Cover Art: See the August 1926 cover beautifully restored at MagazineArt.org
Cover Art: See the August 1926 cover beautifully restored at MagazineArt.org
Online Archives / Full View Back Issues:
The University of Pennsylvania Serials page for The Wide World Magazine may be found here. It combines links to full-view editions at Hathi Trust and Archive.org.
To see the Hathi Trust Catalog list for The Wide World Magazine click here.
To see the Hathi Trust Catalog list for The Wide World Magazine click here.
The Internet Archive provides the following copies in several ebook formats:
Wide World Magazine Volume 1 (April 1898 - Sept 1898).
Wide World Magazine Volume 2 (Nov 1898 - Apr 1899).
Wide World Magazine Volume 4 (Nov 1899–Apr 1900).
Wide World Magazine Volume 5 (May 1900–Oct 1900).
Wide World Magazine Volume 6 (Nov 1900–Apr 1901).
Wide World Magazine Volume 7 May 1901–Oct 1901).
Wide World Magazine Volume 8 (Nov 1901–Apr 1902).
Wide World Magazine Volume 9 (May 1902–Oct 1902).
Wide World Magazine Volume 10 (Nov 1902–Apr 1903).
Wide World Magazine Volume 11 (May 1903–Oct 1903).
Wide World Magazine Volume 12 (Nov 1903–Apr 1904).
Wide World Magazine Volume 13 (May 1904–Oct 1904).
Wide World Magazine Volume 14 (Nov 1904–Apr 1905).
Wide World Magazine Volume 15 (May 1905 - Oct 1905).
Missing editions include:
Wide World Magazine Volume 16 (Nov 1905 - Apr 1906)
Wide World Magazine Volume 17 (May 1906 - Oct 1906)
Wide World Magazine Volume 18 (Nov 1906 - April 1907)
Wide World Magazine Volume 19 (May 1907 - Oct 1907)
Internet Archive has:
Wide World Magazine Volume 20 (Jan 1908 - April 1908)
Wide World Magazine Volume 21 (May 1908 - Oct 1908)
Wide World Magazine Volume 22 (Nov 1908 - April 1909)
