Boy’s stories collection in a folder. dimensions are for the individual storybook.

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The Nelson Lee Library was a story paper of the first third of the 20th century, published by Amalgamated Press. It featured the adventures of private detective Nelson Lee and his boy assistant Nipper.

Overview: Nelson Lee was created by John William Staniforth, writing under the name Maxwell Scott, in 1894. Lee made his debut in A Dead Man’s Secret in The Halfpenny Marvel #46. The detective was an immediate sensation and continued to feature in many of the Amalgamated Press papers over the next twenty years. In 1915 the Amalgamated Press acquired the exclusive right to use the name Nelson Lee from Staniforth for £50. That same year it launched The Nelson Lee Library, a weekly paper devoted to stories about Nelson Lee and Nipper. Despite wartime restrictions, the paper achieved a circulation of 70,000 within its first three months. The first issue of The Nelson Lee Library was published on 12 June 1915, entitled The Mystery of Limehouse Reach and written by Sexton Blake writer A. C. Murray. Many other popular Blake writers would pen Lee tales including William Murray Graydon, William J. Bayfield, George Hamilton Teed, Norman Goddard, and Edwy Searles Brooks.

• Series 1 ran from 12 June 1915 until 24 April 1926, a total of 568 issues.

• Series 2 ran from 1 May 1926 until 18 January 1930, a total of 194 issues.

• Series 3 ran from 25 January 1930 until 18 February 1933, a total of 161 issues.

• Series 4 ran from 25 February 1933 until 12 August 1933. The Nelson Lee Library then merged with The Gem.