Overall Size: 11 x 16 inches

This is a GENUINE ORIGINAL ANTIQUE PUBLICATION. It is NOT a modern reproduction.

Folio Size publication. Period paper. Image is clear and clean. Suitable ageing. As Scanned. Would look very nice framed. An art supply store can provide you with a selection of frames for old art treasures. Beautiful Historical publication.

The Illustrated London News was a magazine founded by Herbert Ingram and his friend Mark Lemon, the editor of Punch magazine. With Lemon as his chief adviser, the first edition of the Illustrated London News appeared on 14 May 1842. Costing sixpence, the magazine had sixteen pages and thirty-two woodcuts. The first edition included pictures of the war in Afghanistan, a train crash in France, a steamboat explosion in Canada and a fancy dress ball at Buckingham Palace. Although 26,000 copies of the first number were disposed of, there was a great falling off in the sale of the second and subsequent numbers. Herbert Ingram, however, was determined to make his property a success, and one that is still spoken of as a brilliant stroke of journalistic enterprise. He sent to every clergyman in the country a copy of the number containing illustrations of the installation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and by this means secured many new subscribers. Articles and Engravings for this supplement include: PROCESSION AT SAN FRANCISCO, IN CELEBRATION OF THE ADMISSION OF CALIFORNIA INTO THE AMERICAN UNION THE WINDOW TAX AND EXCISE DISTRIBUTION OF THE AMERICAN ART UNION PRIZES STEAM VESSEL FLAMER ON A REEF SOUTHEAST OF MONROVIA NARVAEZ LEAVING MADRID GRAND BALL AT BRIGHTON PAVILLION LARGE FULL PAGE ENGRAVING OF THE INTERIOIR OF THE TRANSEPT OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION BUILDING A HIGHLAND MOTHER SHIPWRECK NEAR LANDSEND CHESS MOVES SPORTS