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63076 — Printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode for John Hood Lingard 'Daily Mail' Buildings London. Wednesday June 23rd 1897. Elephant folio c.24 inches x 18 inches. pp. 8. Printed entirely in gold. Clumsily and loosely rolled some foxing of the first and final pages light wear at the fold. COPAC no copy located - the final page shows a view of the Procession taken from the Ball of St. Paul's. 'The result appears above what is we believe the largest news illustration ever printed by any daily paper in this country.' The leading article was written by G. W. STEEVENS - As a journalist he distinguished himself by his clearness of vision and vivid style and was connected successively with the National Observer The Pall Mall Gazette and from 1896 the Daily Mail. He was the most famous war correspondent of his time before being eclipsed by the daring escape of young Churchill from a Pretoria prison. Steevens utilised the articles which appeared in these and other publications in various books such as Monologues of the Dead 1895 The Land of the Dollar America 1897 With the Conquering Turk 1897 With Kitchener to Khartum chronicling his attachment to British forces during the Mahdist War in the Sudan The Tragedy of Dreyfus and his posthumous From Cape Town to Ladysmith. He is also the author of In India a series of articles on India published in 1899. He was appointed by the Daily Mail as war correspondent to South Africa during the Second Boer War in 1899. Caught in the siege of Ladysmith he kept up morale during the early months with his mordant witticisms appearing in Ladysmith Lyre e.g. "a strange sideway out of Ladysmith" for death by disease or starvation. He died of enteric fever now more commonly known as typhoid on 15 January 1900 six weeks before the Natal Field Army of Redvers Buller relieved Ladysmith. Printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode for John Hood Lingard, 'Daily Mail' Buildings, London. Wednesday, June 23rd 1897. Elephant folio unknown