1896 Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Famous Leaders & Battle Scenes of Civil War

Description: Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Famous Leaders and Battle Scenes of the Civil War. The Most Important Events of the Conflict Between the States Graphically Pictured. Stirring Battle Scenes and Grand Naval Engagements, Drawn by Special Artists on the Spot, Portraits of Principal Participants, Military and Civil: Famous Forts: Pathetic Episodes, Etc., Etc. The Whole Forming an Authentic Pictorial History of the War, By Such Well-Known Artists as Becker, et al. A Concise History of the Civil War, Being Official Data Secured from the War Records. Edited by Louis Shepheard Moat. With an Introduction by Joseph B. Carr, Major General. Mrs. Frank Leslie, Publisher, New York. 1896. 569 p., 17 x 12”, folio. In poor condition. As is. Cloth boards attached by bindig mesh ONLY, very fragile. Boards are heavily scuffed at edges and corners with loss of cloth. Gilt lettering on front board & spine heavily dulled, barely legible. Cloth at tail of spine is torn and attached via small portion of front hinge, binding exposed. Many leaves, most at front of text-block are detached from binding & chipped/scuffed at fore-edges. Front gutter split at title page. Title page exhibits light finger-soiling, mostly at bottom corner. Light toning throughout text-block with some sparse instances of age-staining. Some leaves exhibit tearing, but overall leaves remain intact. Illustrations overall presentable. Binding is VERY FRAGILE, barely intact. Please see photos. Frank Leslie (1821 – 1880) was an English-born American engraver, illustrator, and publisher of family periodicals. In 1848 he came to the United States, in 1852 working for Gleason's Pictorial in Boston. He discovered he could accelerate the engraving process significantly by dividing a drawing into many small blocks and distributing the work among many engravers. A job on a large-format wood engraving which might have taken a month for a single wood engraver to complete, could be completed in a day by 30 engravers. In 1853, he arrived in New York City to engrave woodcuts for P. T. Barnum's short-lived Illustrated News. After its failure, he began publishing the first of his many illustrated journalistic ventures, Frank Leslie's Ladies' Gazette of Fashion and Fancy Needlework, with good woodcuts by Leslie & Hooper, a partnership which dissolved in 1854. The New York Journal soon followed, with Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (1855) (called Leslie's Weekly), The Boy's and Girl's Weekly, The Budget of Fun, and many others. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, which included news as well as fiction, survived until 1922. FORN-SHELF-0698-BB-2408-HK2008

Price: 75 USD

Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

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