The Scout Association said Tuesday marked 100 years since the first publication of the book, Scouting for Boys and the beginning of world scouting.
In a press release the group said the first instalment of the book, by Robert Baden-Powell, was done on January 15, 1908 and appeared on British newsstands. It was to be followed with five more instalments, one every two weeks, then the complete book.
According to the release Baden-Powell and his publisher had decided to issue the handbook in six paperback instalments which would appear on newsstands every other week. Afterwards the complete book was published in an inexpensive clothbound edition. Part 1 “resembled a pocketsize magazine sold for four pence (ten cents) a copy,” the release said, adding that the title page described it as “a Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship.”
