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Title: The Leisure Hour: A Family Journal of Instruction and Recreation - January-December 1868
Description: London, 1868. Hardcover. A rebound black cloth hardcover book in good condition. Library stamps on new endpapers; no other library markings. Tear in bottom edge of first blank page; pages somewhat tanned. Text clean and binding tight. Weekly issues 836-887 of The Leisure Hour, a British general-interest periodical of the Victorian era which ran weekly from 1852 to 1905. It was the most successful of several popular magazines published by the Religious Tract Society, which produced Christian literature for a wide audience. Each issue mixed multiple genres of fiction and factual stories, historical and topical. This volume includes installments of "The Mortons of Morton Hall" by James Mahoney, an astronomy series called "The Midnight Sky At London" by Edwin Dunkin of the Royal Observatory, a biographical article on Abraham Lincoln, and a series on "A Lady's Journey Through Spain. Fair .

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