Chums Magazine - Cassell, London - 1897-98 first UK edition: issue numbers 244, 250, 257, 265, 268-270, 275, 290 - 20cmx15cm - condition: good, Rackham ill. covers, excised. Complete set of Rackham illustrated covers for the Chums Magazine Not recorded in Latimore & Haskell; Riall p. 221. Last auctioned off at Christie's in 1996. Rackham made occasional sales to the illustrated magazines of the day like Scraps and Chums. In 1891 and 1892, he had a close association with the Pall Mall Budget as one of this weekly’s main illustrative reporters. He did a lot of illustrating for books and magazines in the 1890s, but came into his own as an artist/illustrator in the Edwardian period.