SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL highly illustrated weekly NEWSPAPER, the Illustrated London News (England) dated Aug 7, 1909. 

This issue contains a double page, 22" x 16" B & W engraving showing 2 women SAILING on a windy day on a river.

GREAT 105 year old sailing print to frame !!

This newspaper mainly contains illustrations of the current news (with some long detailed text descriptions as well). There are many photographs and artists engravings to display the news in pictorial form.

The Illustrated London News was the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper; the first issue appeared on Saturday 14 May 1842. It was published weekly until 1971 and less frequently thereafter. Publication ceased in 2003.

Illustrated London News founder Herbert Ingram was born in Boston, Lincolnshire in 1811, and opened a printing, newsagent and bookselling business in Nottingham around 1834 in partnership with his brother-in-law, Nathaniel Cooke. As a newsagent, Ingram was struck by the reliable increase in newspaper sales when they featured pictures and shocking stories. Ingram began to plan a weekly newspaper that would contain pictures in every edition.

Ingram rented an office, recruited artists and reporters, and employed as his editor Frederick William Naylor Bayley (1808–1853), formerly editor of the National Omnibus. The first issue of The Illustrated London News appeared on Saturday 14 May 1842, timed to report on the young Queen Victoria’s first masquerade ball. Its 16 pages and 32 wood engravings covered topics such as the war in Afghanistan, a train crash in France, a survey of the candidates for the US presidential election, extensive crime reports, theatre and book reviews, and a list of births, marriages and deaths. Ingram hired 200 men to carry placards through the streets of London promoting the first edition of his new newspaper.

Photographic and printing techniques were advancing in the later years of the nineteenth century, and The Illustrated London News began to introduce photos as well as artwork into its depictions of weekly events. From about 1890 onward The Illustrated London News made increasing use of photography. The tradition of graphic illustrations continued however until the end of World War I. Often rough sketches of distant events with handwritten explanations, were supplied by observers and then worked on by artists in London to produce polished end-products for publication. This was particularly the case where popular subjects such as colonial or foreign military campaigns did not lend themselves to clear illustration using the limited camera technology of the period. By the 1920s and 1930s the pictures which dominated each issue of the magazine were almost exclusively photographic, although artists might still be used to illustrate in pictorial form selected topics.

Very good condition. This issue is printed on a glossy high quality paper stock. Unlike PULP PAPER it is easy to handle without damage to the paper itself.

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