Author: COLLINS, WILKIE
Title: "No Name" (Chp. 15) in Harper's Weekly (May 17, 1862)
Description: New York, 1862, First Edition. Book Disbound , Very Good, COMPLETE AND ORIGINAL ISSUE. NOT A REPRINT. This RARE historic document shows usual wear to spine where disbound, minor soiling along spine of front and some spotting, mainly to back page and center spine area of most pages. Of literary note is Chp. XV of "No Name" by Wilkie Collins with two illustrations. This issue also features cover illustration by Winslow Homer (the illustration is clean, there is light soiling to some margins) of "Rebels Outside Their Works at Yorktown Reconnoitring with Dark Lanterns." Also by Homer, 1/2 page illustration, "Charge of the First Massachusetts Regiment on a Rebel Rifle Pit Near Yorktown" and full page illustration, "The Union Cavalry and Artillery Starting in Pursuist of the Rebels Up the Yorktown Turnpike." Also in the issue is a remarkable, highly-detailed, full-page map of the war "theatre" in Virginia and center-fold sketch of "Commodore Farragut's Squadron and Captain Porter's Mortar Fleet Enterin the Mississippi River." Both of these are unrelated to Homer.

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