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Description
This is a beautiful reprinted issue of The Daily Graphic ( No. 5, dated July 26th, 1909 ), presented in a double wrapround showing some full colour plans of the Blériot XI.
Caractéristiques
| Format | 45 x 31 cm |
| Nbr. de pages | 20 |
| Année d’édition | 1909 |
| Langue | Anglais |
| Etat du livre | Très bon état |
| Auteur | Authors’ collective |
| Collection / Série | GREAT NEWSPAPERS REPRINTED |
| Editeur | Peter Way Ltd. |
Description
Publisher's Letter
THIS was the day Britain ceased to be an island. The morning that one brave man in a flimsy aeroplane pointed himself out to sea, and set off for the white cliffs of Dover. ( … )
The Daily Graphic is the newspaper which best captured the moment of excitement the world felt after Bleriot's epic flight, It is the first time in the Great Newspapers Reprinted Series that we have turned back the pages of one of those great British newspapers now no longer with us. And for the first time we present our paper in a double wrapround - to give space to full colour plans of Blériot's amazing machine...
