“Harper’s Weekly” was a hugely influential magazine of the mid-to-late 1800s, as was its predecessor “Frank Leslie’s Illustrated News”. This volume has an incomplete run of each bound together with the final bound issue of Leslie’s in German. Contains work from a variety of well-known authors as well as several two page illustrations on such topics as the Franklin expedition and Camp Massachusetts, as well as several single page maps, portraits and so forth. Works inside from Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities in serialized form, not sure if complete) and Charles Reade, among others. 

Contains all issues of Harper's Weekly from May 14, 1859 to December 31, 1859, as well as the April 23rd issue and all December 1859 issues of Frank Leslie's Illustrated News, and the June 11th issue of the German language Frank Leslie's.

Good Condition: folio: 3/4 leather with marble boards, scuffed and with some loss at corners; edges scuffed; spine has red label at top with gilt lettering; inside front is ad for a Keystone Mowing and Reaping Machine cut from Scientific American Nov 1863; at least three pages have been cut out and removed (553, 567, and 761); foxing and toning to paper due to age; some creased and dog-earred pages; library card taped inside front on free endpaper with description of contents: “The Third Volume of Harper’s Weekly: a Journal of Civilization: 1859”:New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers: 1859
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