Everybodys Poultry Magazine 

Cover Pictures Some notes,below the opinion of Jim Finger.

Everybod

Everybodys Poultry Magazine  Some notes,below the opinion of Jim Finger.

The name was copyright in 1915 but I am unable to locate my Bibliography of Serials to confirm the commencement and final date. I think 1885 is the first edition.  I have also never seen a complete set of this mag.

The Editorial staff reads like a who’s  who of the  poultry fancy and industry of the day min the USA. Predominantly aimed at the fancier and small farmer, the articles are well written, sometimes controversial, and represent writing team that is excellent. One could do worse to base a book collection on the books written by the staff editors, and the contributors,  and  collect the art of these magazine artists.

Edwin Megargee did much of the cover art and was also instrumental in the art of  ICS poultry school, and  McGrews books. Louis Stamer and Louis Paul Graham also featured in the art of many poultry books of the day and several of the magazines. In fact, the articles index is a list of names well known in the trade for articles and books in their own right. The indexes are a useful source as to what books are of value in collections.

 However,   Everybodys did not have a strong game presence.

Group 1  Edwin Megargee front Covers

From the Library of Albert Brust

Condition fair/good reading

1916  Oct

1917  Jan   Feb April Sept

1918  June  Nov

1919  May  Aug

1921 Jan April  May July Aug   Sept  Dec

1922  Jan  Feb  Mar Oct

Group 2  Louis Stamer Front Covers Possible from Jimmy Gwin Condition Poor

1923  Nov  Dec

1924  April Nov, Dec

!925  Jan, Feb, Mar. Apr, May, June  Sept. Oct, Nov, Dec

1926    Jan, Feb, Mar, April, June, July, September

1927 May

Group 3   New magazine layout( change of management?)

1928  with Megargee covers  Mar Oct Dec

1929  With Louis Paul Graham Covers Jan Feb

First Group Frontis Artwork  Edwin Megargee Watercolor Print on cover. Megargee was both an author in his own right but also  renowned for his plates in  T F Mcgrew’s  Book Of Poultry. Interesting that both McGrew as breed specialist and Megargee as artist were active in the Everbodys magazines.

Several of these copies have names on the back that look like the newsagents record of who has ordered. Albert Brust. I have several books with his bookplate.

The second Group  Frontis artwork Lous Stammer. These are in much poorer condition.

Regarding provenance.

These copies came to me from John Skinners collection, and they are in two separate groups the earlier ones 1917-22 are the group from Albert Brust, though not all are named. I think they arrived to John from Albert Brust , but I cant be sure if there was someone else in the path. They are clean and bright. One copy shows signs of having been bound in a group.

The second group  came via John Skinner. I have related elsewhere where Jimmy Gwin’s archive caught fire and many of the books were saved. Several collections of books arrived to me via John Skinner who was a witness to the fire. I attribute those with scorch marks or smoke damage from the Jimmy Gwin collection. Jimmy Gwin’s collection was rated the largest in the USA, but it did feature very heavily on commercial and research materials. In John Skinners large collection including virtually complete bound set of Poultry Tribune, and these Everbodys showing smoke and damage  and a number of books showing  signs of smoke or fire. I am happy to quote the provenance of these books as via Jimmy Gwin and John Skinner finally to myself in the 1980’s.

The third group have the new management covers, coinciding with a new address of the company . Very good condition . Provenance   From John Skinner to myself  but otherwise unknown.

I have also a few water damaged books  in my collection from John Skinner, that I also attribute to Jimmy Gwin.

From dogcrazybooks.com   ( about Megargees other works)

Megargee’s first big break came in 1911 when he was hired by the International Correspondence Schools, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The company had developed a correspondence course for those interested in raising poultry. A total of 32 booklets were sent to those who enrolled in the course. Two of those booklets illustrated various types of fowl, from common breeds of chicken to pheasants to exotic fowl from around the world. Megargee’s illustrations are glorious. While some are simple depictions showing the differences between a cock and a hen, we begin to see one of the signature elements of Megargee’s later dog work. Megargee begins to paint his subjects in appropriate backgrounds: scratching the ground for food, poised before a farm gate, assembled around a water dish and atop a barnyard fence. The plates from these booklets are still highly collectible. They bear the 1911 date on the plates below Megargee’s signature, though the booklets were actually published in 1912. One can occasionally find surviving copies of these booklets which have been rebound in leather.  In 1921, the project was expanded and republished as The Book of Poultry, by Thomas McGrew, with 70 colored plates by Megargee. The brilliance of his correspondence school illustrations would also be noted across the Atlantic.

 For Sale 

53  Issues  Everybodys Poultry Magazines  various from 1916 to 1929.

Prefer to sell as a whole.   $1000   plus post.  

Variable condition

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