The Moonstone Title Page in All the Year Round

Here is the title page for Wilkie Collin’s The Moonstone, in All the Year Round. Unlike Harper’s Weekly, All the Year Round does not have illustrations incorporated within its text. Although there are no illustrations, All the Year Round still has “sensational advertising” and can be tesesllatedly read. In this May 30, 1968 issue of All the Year Round, the advertisements and short stories that follow The Moonstone, have similar concepts to The Moonstone. For instance, one story titled, “The Lake of Pitch,” had a man who was cautious around the pitch, because when the pitch gets too much moisture, it softens and could swallow a person. We see this same situation with Franklin Blake when trying to dig the metal case out of the quicksand. The tessellated reading between these two stories have the identical situation of a man afraid to get sucked into the ground. The advertisement right after The Moonstone, titled “Nothing Like Example,” uses the topics of death, suicide, and murder to sell a news vendor’s shop. We see these topics come up in The Moonstone.