Marvels of the Universe, 1912 – Curious Scientific Illustrations From A Compendium of Life

First published in 1912, readers could learn all things about everything in Marvels of the Universe : a popular work on the marvels of the heavens, the earth, plant life, animal life, the mighty deep. It was published as a periodical in London by Hutchinson and Company, founded in 1887 by Sir George Hutchinson and later run by his son, Walter Hutchinson (1887–1950).

 

 

Hutchinson’s published books and magazines such as The Lady’s Realm, Adventure-story Magazine, Hutchinson’s Magazine and Woman. In the 1920s, Walter Hutchinson published many of the “spook stories” of E.F. Benson in Hutchinson’s Magazine and then in collections in a number of books. The company also first published Arthur Conan Doyle’s Professor Challenger novels, five novels by mystery writer Harry Stephen Keeler, and short stories by Eden Phillpotts. In 1929, Walter Hutchinson stopped publishing magazines to concentrate on books. In the 1930s, Hutchinson published H.G. Wells’s The Bulpington of Blup as well as the first English translations of Vladimir Nabokov’s Camera Obscura in 1936 and Despair (translated by Nabokov himself) under its John Long marque of paperbacks.

In 1947 the company launched the Hutchinson University Library book series. The company merged with Century Publishing in 1985 to form Century Hutchinson, and was folded into the British Random House Group in 1989, where it remains as an imprint of Cornerstone Publishing, a publishing house of Penguin Random House UK.

 

 

Many of the hundreds of pages and plates were deigned for readers to cut out and frame. So in accordance with that, we’ve made our selection of these images and more available as prints. Each is available as a 20cm x 30cm and 10cm x 15cm scientific illustrations prints, with the original captions included for added interest.

 

 

You can see more of these great illustrations in the shop here.