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Transvaal Special : BLACK & WHITE BUDGET, Transvaal: Special. Boer or Briton? Volume 1, number 1 to Volume 2, number 24. Thirty-two Pages of Illustrations and Summary of Recent Events

2 volumes, each issue 32 pages, tall 8vo (275 x 190 mm), many illustrations, this set is unusual in that the original pictorial wrappers for each issue are preserved and bound in, half maroon leather gilt, maroon cloth sides

Jingoistic mass circulation weekly priced at two pence per copy and aimed at the newly literate lower middle class it was immediately successful. By issue number 17, February 3, 1900 the circulation had grown to 520,000 copies and by February 27, to 600,000 and the claim is made that, 'placed end to end last week's issue reached from London to Bournemouth.' The flavour of the journalism can been seen from the following description of President Kruger, '...He once called our Queen "een kwaje vrouw" (which neither sounds nor means nice), and we haven't forgotten it. He hates Chamberlain, Rhodes and Milner, just as he hates everything British, and he often preaches o' Sundays, his sermons generally being a glorification of the Boer and a sweeping damnation of the Briton. For an old man, he ought to know better.' It is profusely illustrated throughout with photographs and sketches by war artists.

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