Figure 1.-- This is the cover from a 1904 issue of 'The Prize'. The boy even though he is home is wearing his school uniform, alothough we doubt if the caped overcoat was part of it. Notably ius suster is not wearing a school uniform. The illustration givs thde impression that the education of boys was still seen as more important.

The Prize was an early English children's monthly. We are not sure when it was founded, but we think it may have been about 1882. It is not clear how the monthly issues were numbered. We have not been able to find much information about it. The publication was richly illustrated and we believes consisted of mostly literary material. The monthly iddsues in ythe 1880s and 90s cost a penny. Unfortunatly all we can find about on the internet, but the cover illustrations were done in color, unusual for the 1880s. Many of the covers were of children. There were also many animal covers. We do not know who the illustrators were. We notice that Harrison Weir did many of the animal illustrations. There sere many illustrations for the stories and other content, mostly one done in black and white. There were also advertisements. We are mot sure who the publisher was, but Wells and Gardner in London did annual hard-cover compilatiomns. We are not sure how long the publication run was, but we notice issues into the 1910s.

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