1853 Illustrated News Vols. I & II, COMPLETE RUN 48 ISSUES, P. T. Barnum

Description: The Illustrated News, January 1, 1853 to June 25, 1853, Nos. 1 - 26. Volume 1. New York: P.T. Barnum, Frank Leslie, Beard Brothers et al. 132 Fulton St., 416 p. + Vol. II: July 2, 1853 to November 26, 1853. Nos. 27 - 48. 312 p. Volume I & II bound in one volume measuring 16 x 12”, folio. A COMPLETE RUN IN 48 ISSUES! In fair condition. Modern cloth binding scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine collapsed; tail exhibits tearing. Ex-library white hand-writing found at top edge of front board. Ex-library bookplate found on front paste-down: “City of Asheville, North Carolina. Sondley Reference Library, Presented by Misses Ethel & Harriet Cushman in Memory of Their Sister Miss Marion Cushman.” Pencil marginalia found on front end-page. Ex-library ink stamp found on bottom edges of front end-page & page 3. Vignette title page is chipped at all edges, especially at fore-edge. Piece of tape found on bottom edge of vignette title page. First approximately hundred pages of Vol. I’s text-block brittle & prone to chipping at fore-edges. Binding is fragile throughout text-block, but boards are intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Phineas T. Barnum (1810 - 1891) was the co-owner of this early illustrated newspaper which preceded both Leslie's Illustrated and Harper's Weekly which would become immensely more successful. This effort by Barnum and the Beach brothers would last for only 48 issues, less than one year. In 1853 he started the pictorial weekly newspaper Illustrated News. He completed his autobiography one year later, which sold more than one million copies over the course of numerous revisions. In the early 1850s, Barnum began investing to develop East Bridgeport, Connecticut. He extended substantial loans to the Jerome Clock Company to lure it to move to his new industrial area, but the company went bankrupt by 1856, taking Barnum's wealth with it. This began four years of litigation and public humiliation. Of note is a four part reprint of Edgar Allan Poe's work on autography and the meanings behind signatures (abridged and rearranged) and a short poem by Horatio Alger, Welcome to May. (1, 35 p.) A map of Mecilla Valley, a disputed territory around the area of New Mexico, and of which the Gadsden Purchase centered around, is present. This is accompanied by a short article relating details of the dispute (1, p. 357). Also of interest are articles, with illustrations, on various ship and train wrecks, Ericsson's caloric engine for use in ships, articles on California gold, the second Grinnell expedition in the Arctic, the Baltimore and Ohio railway and Pettibone's tunnel, the Naval Academy in Maryland, Japan, shad fishing, clipper ships and Vanderbilt steam yacht, Scuba dives and apparatus (1, p. 236), Arthur Spring the Philadelphia murderer, Baltimore shot works (1, p. 241), an African church in Cincinnati, Parisian mantilla fashions, as well as other Parisian fashions (1, p. 308 and others), The New York hippodrome (1, p. 313), a railway calamity in Norwalk, CT (1, p. 333), Paterson railroad accident, Parisian electric clock (1, p. 341), Sicard's scuba apparatus (1, p. 365), , custom house in Charleston, SC (1, p. 373), a map of Central Park in New York (1, p. 409) The Gavazzi disturbance at Quebec (2, 1 p.)Railroad Accidents, Egyptian Curiosities (2, 18-19 p.)Kiss's Statue of the Amazon, Crystal Palace (2, 33 p.)View of Nashville, Tenn. - from a Daguerreotype (2, 51 p.)Sunday at the Sing Sing Prison, Imperial Family of Hayti (Haiti; 2, 108-9 p.)Fair of the New York State Agricultural Society, Saratoga Springs (2, 176 p.)Scene at the Stock Exchange New York (2, 213 p.)Barnum's American Museum, New York (2, 237 p.)A COMPLETE RUN OF ILLUSTRATED NEWS! FORN-SHELF-0698-BB-2408-HK2015

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