The Religious Tract Society was a British evangelical Christian organization founded in 1799 and known for publishing a variety of popular religious and quasi-religious texts in the 19th century. The society engaged in charity as well as commercial enterprise, publishing books and periodicals for profit.
The Depository of the Religious Tract Society at 56 Paternoster Row, opened in 1844.
Illustration from 1880 issue of The Sunday at Home, a magazine published by the RTS.
The Boy's Own Paper was a British story paper aimed at young and teenage boys, published from 1879 to 1967.
Issue No. 1, 18 January 1879
The Boy's Own Paper, front page, 11 April 1891
This plate appeared in the 36th The Boy's Own Annual (1913-1914), and is based on the painting A Very Gallant Gentleman by John Charles Dollman. It depicts the last moments of Lawrence Oates.
Beeton's Boy's Own Magazine, 1855