Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. (A Large Original Bound Volume, with 670 pags) (Volumes 9-10, with a few issues from v.7 & 11)

Henry Carter; Frank Leslie

Frank Leslie, New York, N.Y. (1859-1860)

[America at the Cusp of the Civil War: A vision of 1859-1860]  Folio.  Approximately 670 pages.  Profusely illustrated, many with full size engravings.  Bound in old leather-backed, black cloth boards.   One page detached.  A few marginal stains, but generally sound.  Includes:  Vol. 7, no. 167.  April 16, 1859 (pages 303-318);  Vol 7, no. 176 Dec 21, 1859 (pgs. 65-80); Vol 9. No. 216, (pgs. 113-128) (1860); A long continuous run:  Vol. 9, No. 219-234. Feb. 11, 1860 - May 26, 1860 (pgs 161-414);  Vol. 10, no. 235-255,  June 2, 1860 - Oct 13 1860 (pgs 1-334);  Vol. 11. No.264, Dec. 15, 1860 (pgs. 49-64) (First Lady Elect Mary Todd Lincoln and her boys on Cover).  

Provenance: Signed by Hattie A Tucker, West Mansfield, Mass on the FEP.  Additional ephemera: Includes a contemporary poem and notes written by Hattie Tucker on a loose leaf page.  

  Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper was created in 1855.  Issues averaged 16 pages and covered timely, newsworthy events of the previous week.  Teams of illustrators made sketches, the illustrations were produced from engraved woodblock prints, which were converted to electrotyped copper plates.   Leslie's paper was the first successful pictorial newspaper in the United States.