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Title: Harper's Weekly Journal of Civilization - 1859-1864
Description: New York, Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1859. 1859, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864. Hardcover. Utilitarian academic cloth binding, with each volume containing a range of years. 5 volumes: April 9, 1859 - March 31, 1860. April 7, 1860 - August 3, 1861. August 10, 1861 - January 24, 1863. January 31, 1863 - January 9, 1864. January 16, 1864 December 31, 1864. 600-800 pages per volume. Heavy and oversize and will require extra postage. Includes scarcer 1859 and 1860 issues documenting the lead up to the US Civil War continuing through emancipation, with news articles, illustrations of battles, military personnel, devastation, etc. Also includes the latest fiction (Wilkie Collins, Thackeray, etc. Paris fashions, news of the world, and advertisements. The January 1861 issue continues with Chapter 10 of Dickens' Great Expectations and his Christmas Story, A Message from the Sea. A later issue includes the two maps prepared specially for Harper's Weekly of the United States and the Southern States. As this is a bound copy (no longer folded), the halves of each map are separated by a few pages. The 1862 Volume includes the wreck of the "City of New York" from the Burnside Expedition. The 1863 volume contains an interesting 2-page illustration of Emancipation Past/Future, the Sioux War, the Rush Street Bridge accident in Chicago, etc. The volume for 1864 covers the late and current kings of Denmark, the Brooklyn Fair in Aid of the Sanitary Commission (with a two-page illustration), and a facsimile of a photograph of the moon (2-page spread) taken by Dr. Henry Draper's telescope (along with corresponding article). Covers VG (rebindings); Front and last pages of each volume are covered in crude preservation tissue, which has caused some extreme wrinkling with age, but could potentially be removed. Contents mostly VG-/Good with a bit of age toning here and there, occasional light foxing, as with many period newpapers there are a few printers errors the worst being creases to the lithos page 321 of 1861 and the broadsheet illustration page 792 of 1864. There are several smaller closed tears throughout most of which do not affect the text block, but there are a few intrusions into the text or plates in each volume, but only in only in a few circumstances is information missing or badly damaged: Page 709 1861 full sheet foldout map has a lot of tearing and damage to the center crease, Page 123 1862 has a piece torn out of the top corner with some missing text and plate opposite, Page 33-36 1863 has had a large chunck of the bottom 1/4th torn out with various incomplete scraps of the missing pages laid in. Definetly a reference copy, but all around still in good condition with a very small percentage of flaws.

Keywords: Serials; Harper's Weekly 1859-1864; CIVIL War ; Harper's Weekly ; ;


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