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Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. From Engravings (illustrateur). First Edition. Boston: M.M. Ballou, 1856. First Edition. The February 2, 1856 issue, Volume X, No. 5, Whole No. 239. Numerous illustrations from engravings. Elephant folio size, sewn newsprint wraps, 16 pp. Very Good Plus, with small areas of peripheral darkening, soil on rear cover, small dog ear without loss at some leaves; standard age-toning to the paper. A sturdy example. See scans. Maturin Ballou's paper was quite supple, not at all fragile, and it shows. Sharp, healthy, well-preserved. This issue contains stories, articles, and / or the diverse and now somewhat legendary engravings - here, regarding: cover article, Victor Emmanuel, King of Sardinia, with text and one large portrait engraving; The Contrabandists, or The Secret of A Life / A True Story of the South of France (continuation, with of several chapters; one engraving as illustration; author uncredited here); two full pages (and these are of course large folio pages) of text with six engravings on Arabia - Arab Emigrants, an Arab Plough, an Arabian Market Scene, and Arab Fool/Crazy Man, Arabian Prophesying, and an Arabian party in a tent; Frank Milton's Angel, a story by Mary A. Lowell; a vast two full page engraving of the Battle of Lake Erie (Commodore Perry's Victory), with ships identified at the bottom margin, though two folio pages are too large even for a large-format scanner, and that marginal identification doesn't show in the scan; Stingo Grout, Esquire, a story by Mrs. H.C. Gardner; Mr. Daniel Dingdong (of the firm of Dingdong, Titman and Weasel), a story by Maurice Silingsby; Scenes in the (Circus) Ring, text and one large engraving; Icebergs and Greenlanders (text); Approach to Jerusalem (text); Origin of Plants (text); full rear page article, with very large engraving, of the 1856 Massachusetts House of Representatives; as well as of course a number of short editorials, news pieces, poems, and ads. Please see all scans. Maturin Ballou's 16-page newsprint periodical was already a piece of American history when he, as managing editor of Gleason's Pictorial, bought that - the first successful illustrated weekly newspaper in America - from owner Frederick Gleason in 1855. An early issue under this name. lLng2.

Self-wraps [newspaper]. Etat : Very Good. From Engravings (illustrateur). First Edition. Boston: M.M. Ballou, 1855. First Edition [newspaper]. The February 3, 1855 issue, Volume VIII, No. 5, Whole No. 187. Numerous illustrations from engravings. Elephant folio size, newsprint wraps, 16 pp. A strong Very Good or better; some edge wear, and a few leaves show some edge darkening. See scans. Paper is quite supple, not at all fragile. Sharp, healthy, well-preserved. This issue contains stories, articles, and / or the diverse and now somewhat legendary engravings - as follows: The month of February itself (cover); "Steel and Gold: The Heir of Glenville" (story by Francis A. Durivage); Rosetta, Egypt (engraving); Birket-El-Ginnah (Cairo, Egypt) (engraving); "The Adopted Son's Bride" (story by Mrs. Caroline Orne); "Review of Holiday Presents." (Mrs. E. Wellmont); State Street (Boston) in 1770 vs. State Street in 1855 (with an engraving of State Street at each date); "Jerusalem!" (poem, Mary N. Dearborn); "A Visit to Wakullah Spring" (Ernest Malvern); "Edward L. Davenport", with an engraving of the actor; "Savin Hill and Old Colony Railroad" with an engraving of the Savin Hill Railroad Bridge in Dorchester; "The Architecture of Birds", with five engravings of bird's nests; Imperial Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (with engraving); Spangenburg Fortress, in Kurhessen (with engraving), and a number of short editorials, news pieces, and classified ads. Maturin Ballou's 16-page newsprint periodical was already a piece of American history when he, as managing editor of Gleason's Pictorial, bought that - the first successful illustrated weekly newspaper in America - from owner Frederick Gleason in 1855. An early issue under this name. lLng1.