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• Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story was published
• Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee

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January 1st

A fourteen page issue price sixpence.

It features articles with prints from engravings, &c. including

• 'Prince Komatsu of Japan and Princess Komatsu of Japan' (front page), Ball Given at Yokohama, Japan, To The Officers of The British Naval Squadron' (full page),
• Scene from The Pantomime of The Forty Thieves at Drury Lane Theatre' (full page),
• 'Irish Land Legue Agitation: Police Raid on The National Rent Office at Loughrea, Scene in the Office',Outside the National Rent Office at Loughrea, After the Arrest of Messrs. O'Brien and Dillon',

• 'Colossal Lion at Reading: Memorial of The Berkshire Regiment in Afghanistan',
• 'The Hippodrome at Olympia, The National and Cultural Hall, Kensington: The Chariot Race' (wonderful double page),
• 'Society of British Artists, The Winter Exhibitions, Suffold Street - The Convalescent by S. Melton Fisher - The Banks of The Thames by A. Glendenning - Daffodils by G. Lance Calkin - Ye Lytel Mayde by F. J. Wyburd - The Morning Nap by Carlton A. Smith - Reading The Motto by G,. H. Gadsby' (all on one full page),
• 'The Late Mr. J. H. Mole, Vice President of The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours',
• 'The Late Surgeon E. W. Kelsall, died in Burmah',
• 'The Last of The Season: A Grain Steamer Making for Buffalo, Lake Erie' (Close of American Lake Navigation),
• 'The Kimberley Gold Fields, West Australia - Caroline Pool - Albert Edward Range - Ord River - Permanent Creek - Rough Range' (full page),
• 'Frost and Fog' (Full page by Lucien Davis),
• 'English Homes - Sandringham', 'Sandringham Church - Old Oak, Sandringham Park - Lych Gate, Sandringham Church - Sir Dighton Probyn's House - The Bachelors Cottages' (Wonderful full page, also with a very descriptive two page article on house, grounds and surrounding areas),
• 'Suttons Amateurs Guide in Horticulture' (advert),
• Pears Soap' (advert),
• Also articles (no engravings) including 'Echoes of the Week',
• 'Obituary includes Sir Henry Charles Paulet, Bart at Little Testwood, Southampton - Sir Edmund Filmer - Sir Thomas douglas Forsyth - Mr Robert Priolean Roupell at his residence in The Albany, Piccadilly - The Venerable John Allen - Dr Robert Spencer Dyer Lyons MD, MP',
• 'The Playhouses', 'Literature', 'Chess', 'Ladies Column',
• 'A Century Ago - January 1787
• 'Wills and Bequests

January 8th

A fourteen page issue price sixpence.

It features articles with prints from engravings, &c. including

• 'Sketches in Burmah: by Captain C. Pulley, 3rd Ghoorka Regiment - In Merchant Street, Mandalay - The Real Ruler in the Land - A Burmese Coolie - Mounted Infantry on Burmese Pony' ( full front page),
• 'Our Troops in Burmah: Reception of general Sir F. Roberts in Mandalay at The East Gate of The Palace' (full page),
• 'Sir Charles A. Aitchison KCSI, Commisioner of Punjaub, Chancellor of Punjaub University', 'Mr. G. R. Elsmie, Vice Chancellor of The Punjaub University, Lahore', 'Mr. F. De H. Larpent, Registrar of the Punjaub University',
• 'The Old Palace, Croydon', 'The Chapel, Croydon Archbishops Palace and Queen Elizabeths Pew',
• 'The Bulgarian Crisis: Russian Agents Trying to Seduce The Garrison of Sistova',
• 'The Winter Exhibitions: The Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours',
• 'Cheering Lord Randolph Churchill's Name at Loughrea, on The Town Crier Announcing His Resignation',
• 'Ireland: Constabulary Guarding a Government Reporter at A Plan of Campaign Meeting',
• 'The Marquis of Hartington MP' (double page),
• 'Nan's Story - Told in The Childrens Hospital',
• 'Effects of The Recent Wintry Storm: Wreck of The Russian Vessel Joutsen, At Dover, Sunday Night, Dec 26th - Wreck of The Tally Ho, At Eastbourne, Sunday Night - Mail Cart Between Staplehurst and Rochester in a Snow Drift - A Soldier Lost in a Snow Drift, Near Brentwood, Essex - Trees Blown Down in The Broad Walk, Kensington Gardens - Damage to Trees in Kensington Gardens, Near Queen's Gate - Damage to The Mounting Shed Carriage Factory, Woolwich Arsenal - Casting Snow into The Thames from The Embankment',
• 'Streeter & Co., Goldsmiths' (advert),
• 'The Crusade of the Excelsior by Bret Harte',
• 'A Cry for Help: The Life Line From The Shore, Rocket Apparatus Used by The Volunteer Life Brigade' , 'The Seven Cuticura Boys' (adverts), 'Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company - Fine Gold Padlock Bracelet' (advert).
• Also articles (no engravings) including 'Echoes of The Week',
• 'Obituary includes Sir James Dalyrymple Horn Elphinstone of Horn and Logie Elphinstone, Aberdeenshire died at Uplands, Bridgwater - Mr. David Duncan JP, MP at Gayton Hall, Cheshire - The Rev. Thomas Butler died at Wilderhope House, Shrewsbury',
• 'The New Postage Stamps',
• 'Parisian Sayings and Doings',
• 'Sir Antony Vandyck at The Grosvenor Gallery',
• 'Lifeboat Services in 1886',
• 'Wills and Bequests'.

January 15th

A sixteen page issue, price sixpence.

It features articles with prints from engravings, &c. including:

• 'The Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, The New Chancellor of The Exchequer' (full front page - appointed after Randolph Churchill Resigned)
• 'Collapse of Part of The Shrewsbury Railway Station
• 'Feeding The Deer in Richmond Park During The Late Severe Weather'
• 'Floods in Bramber, Sussex'
• 'Bits of Old London: Lincolns Inn - Sir J. Soane's Museum - Gateway to New Square - Bishops Court - The Old Gateway Chancery Lane - The Old Hall - The Old Sardinian Chapel - A Doorway - A Corner in Old Buildings'
• 'The Late Earl of Iddesleigh'
• 'The Irish Land War in Galway: Serving Summonses on The Clanricharde Estate, Woodford, County Galway'
• 'Ireland: Emergency Men, With Police Guard, Starting in Search of Fuel, Fort in the Background' 'House of An Evicted Tenant, Pat Conroy, Fortified by The Police' Emergency Men With Police Guard, Felling Trees for Fuel' 'Scene at an Irish Eviction in County Kerry' (full page engraving)
• 'Pears Soap endorsed by Lillie Langtry' amongst others (advert)
• 'Natives of Southern India and Ceylon: Tamil - Veddah - Cinghalese Waiter'
• 'Skating Championship Meetings in The Fens Cowbit Wash, Lincolnshire and Swavesey, Cambridge' (also lists some of the competitors, a very popular sport then)
• 'Sketches of Russian Peasant Life: A Moujik's Funeral - Moujik in Summer Dress ( Novgorod ) - Vodka Shop in a Novgorod Village - Moujik Ploughing - Moujik and Wife at Home' (full page)
• 'Sketches in the Bahamas - Natives of Nassau - Government House as it was - Gateway with entrance to Government House Above - Street in Nassau with royal Palm - part of Grants Town - A Wood Gatherer, Fuel from the Blue Hills - General View of Nassau Looking NW - A Relic of Slavery - An Ancient Pedlar of Sticks and Sponges - Old Gateway with Silk Cotton Tree Above - St Matthews Church - House in The Suburbs of Grants Farm - View of a Sponge Yard - Sugar'
• 'Miranda Painting by Jean Baptste Greuze' (Beautiful nearly full page)
• 'Crotalus Rattlesnake Bar, Sierras by Bret Harte' (poem and engraving)
• 'Sketches in Burmah by Captain C. Pulley 3rd Ghoorka Regiment:The European Field hospital and Officers Quarters at Mandalay'
• 'The Incomparable Pagoda, on The Dhobies Ghaut, Mandalay'
• 'A Romp After Dinner by Towneley Green' ( blind mans buff )
• 'Suttons Amateurs Guide'
• 'Chancery Lane Safe Deposit - Identification Lobby - Interior of A Safe Strong Room - Strong Rooms in Basement - Plate Strong Room' (full page advert)
• Also articles (no engravings) including 'Echoes of The Week',
• 'The Silent Member'
• ,'Queen Victorias Jubilee', 'Ladies Column', 'Political Situations', 'Parisian Sayings and Doings', 'The Court',
• 'The German Army Bill - Speeches of Count Von Moltke and Prince Von Bismark',
• 'Obituary includes Sir Francis John Bolton at Bournmouth, the inventor of telegraphic and visual signalling. - Sir Walter Watson Hughes late of South Australia died at Fancourt, Chertsey - Mr John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge-Erle-Drax of Holnest House - Mr Thomas Weld Blundell of Ince Blundell, Lancaster at Lulworth Castle',
• 'Sea Songs',
• 'Crusade of the Excelsior by Bret Harte chapter III',
• 'Wills and Bequests includes Alderman Thomas Rose of 14 Bank Street Manchester and 4 Tivoli Place Stretford Lancashire - Sir John Anderson FRSE of Farleigh, The Mount, St. Leonards on Sea - Mr Thomas Lockerby late of Derwent Villa, Addiscombe Surrey - Miss Fanny Halsey of Little Gaddesden Herts - Mr. James Sivewright of The Grove, Torquay - Mrs Mary Forbes of The Holmes, St Boswells, Roxburghshire - Mr Frederick Bent of Coldbrook Park, Abergavenny - Rev. William Hepworth Thompson DD late Master of Trinity College, Cambridge'
• 'A Black Page in History, Persecution for Witchcraft',
• 'The Old Masters at Burlington House'

February 5th

• Mr Stanley with the Maxim Automatic Machine Gun Emir Pasha Expedition.
• Steel Whale Boat constructed for the ascent of the Congo.
• Operation of the British Naval Forces on the River Niger.
• Four Portraits of members of Parliament
• Beautiful Engraving "Thus Conscience Does Make Cowards of us All" by Dadd.
• "Pot Luck" with Russian Soldiers at Possiette Bay.
• Double page Engraving ( very fine)." Their Only Boat.

March 5th

• The Earthquake on the riviera South Coast of France.
• Encampment in the Place Sasserino Nice,
• Room in a Hotel Mentone.
• Earthquake in Monaco, Monte Carlo and other Italian Towns.
• Sketches in British Columbia.
• Double page Spread "Russian Troops on the March.
• Map of the Riviera showing effects of Earthquake.

March 24th

• 'The Townhall Birmingham' Front page
• 'The Council house and Municipal Buildings, Birmingham' Front Page

'The Queen at Olympia, West Kensington' Front Page

' 'The Queens Visit to Birmingham: New Street Birmingham'

'Birmingham: Lawley parker Esq,Chairman of Reception Cimmittee' - 'Thomas Martineau Esq Mayor of Birmingham' - J. Orford Smith Esq, Town Clerk of Birmingham' - 'Metal Workers Arch, Colmore Row' - 'Floral Arch, Bull Ring' - 'Gun Makers Arch, Corporation Street'

'The Attempt to Murder The Emperor of Russia: The Anitchkoff palace, St petersburg, The Residence of the Emperor Alexander III'

'Russia: Outside the Citadel Church, St Petersburg'

'The New Law Courts at Birmingham, The Foundation Stone of Which Was Laid By the Queen on Wednesday' Large Double page

'Queens Jubilee in Bombay'

'Queens Jubilee in Bomay: Rampart Row'

'Bombay: Sassoon and Co's Offices, Rampart Row'

'The Bull ring, With St Martins Church, Birmingham in 1812'

'Specimens of the Hittite Inscriptions: Inscription At Jerabis ( Carchemish ) on the Euphrates - Lion Figure at Merash, Mount Taurus - Fragment from Jeraris - Eagle at Eyuk, Asia Minor - Bas Relief At Boghaz Keui - Stone Bowl found at Babylon - Inscription on Stone Bowl - Silver Boss, with Bilingual Inscription in Cuneform and Hittite Characters' All on one full page

'Chess'

'An English lady Preacher of The Salvation Army in a Swiss Tavern' Wonderful Double page

'The King of Prussia at a Court Ball in 1862, Pointing Out Bismark, His New Minister of State by R. Caton Woodville' Full page<> 'Life of The German Emperor, William I: On The Eve of The Battle of Sadowa, July 2, 1866' Fullpage

'The Emperor William I at a Boar Hnt' Full page

'Beechams Pills' Full page

Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including:
Echoes of The Week

'The Plot to Murder the Czar'<> 'Ladies Column'

'Wills and Bequests'

April 2nd

• 'The Queen Laying The Foundation Stone of The New Law Courts At Birmingham' Full front page

  'Trowel and Mallet Used by The Queen at Birmingham'

  Birmingham 'Small Heath park' - 'Lodge and Gate, Small Heath park'

  'The Old Crown Inn, Deritend' Birmingham

  Birmingham 'Heathfield House, The Home of James Watt '

  Birmingham 'St Martins Church, Bull Ring '

  'The Queens Visit to Birmingham: The Luncheon Room at The Townhall'

  Birmingham 'HighStreet'

  'Reception at The Small Heath Station: The Mayoress Presenting The Queen with a Bouquet'

  Birmingham 'Presentation of Addresses in The Townhall'

  'The Queen at Olympia: Young Lions Introduced to Her Majesty' Full page

  'The Late Mr Collingwood Smith' RSA

  'The Crown Prince Of Siam' Somdetch Phra Chow Fah Maha Vajirunhis, age nine

  'The Late Sir illiam Andrew'

  'The Great Egg Question: Sketches at a Poultry Farm: Field with Poultry Coups - Specimaens of Good Breeds - Incubators for Artificial hatching - Artificial Foster Mother for New Born Chicken - Sleeping House for Older Chicks - Fattening Chicken with the Craming Machine' - Higgler and Boy Collecting Poultry - Coops in Barn with Chicken Fattening - Plucking Chicken, Killed by the man - Chicken Being Pressed for Packing - Packing Cases for Chicken' Full page

  'Life of The German Emperor William I - His Majesty at A Parade of The Royal Guards' wonderful double page

  'Mid Lent Childrens Parties i Paris' Full page

  'The Queens Visit to The Riveiera: The Villa Edelweiss, The Temporary Residence of the Queen at Cannes

  'Distant View of Teh Villa Edelweiss'

  'Chess'

  'The Queens Visit To Birmingham: The Procession Passing Along new Street' Wonderful double page

  'Brookes Soap, Monkey Brand'

  
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  Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including:
  'Echoes of The Week'

  'The Playhouses'

  'Novels'

  'The Silent Member'

  The Court at Windsor etc'

  ''Home and Foreign News'

  'Obituary includes Emily Anne, viscountess Strangford died on board the steamship Lusitania in the Mediterranean - - Sir William Grace, Bart., - - The Rev John Prideaux Lightfood DD Rector of Exeter College, Oxford died on his birthday'

  'The Queens Jubilee'

  'The Ladies Column by Florence Fenwick Miller'

  'The Lifeboat Institution'

  'Egg and Poultry Industries'

  'Kaiser Wilhelms Ninetieth Birthday'

  'A Century Ago' Islington Church Spire

  
  

April 16th

price sixpence.

• 'Jubilee Festival at Pontypool, Monmouthsihire, on Easter Monday: The Eisteddfod - Presentation of Prizes - Roasting The Ox - General View of Pontypool' Front page
• '..."The Homeward Bound" in Dover Harbour, Captain and Crew: Captain Ingvald Nilson - Bernhard Nilson - Zephanias Olsen' a small sloop undertook the journey from Natal on the Indian Ocean Coast of Eastern S. Africa to Dover

'Large Whale Captured at Skegness, Lincolnshire'

'With The Shan Column in Bujrmah, Attack on The Rebel Position at Nankon'

'Shan column: The Enlay Lake at Mein Senk'

'The Easter Volunteer Manoeuvres near Dover'

'The American Exhibition, Earls Court, West Brompton and West Kensington: Lassoing Wild Steers - Indian Camp - Indian Chief - Lassoing Wild Horses - Indians' Double Page

'Sketches in Bechuanaland, South Africa: A Barolong Girl - raal at Mafeking - A Goat Herd - Sunday morning worship at Mafeking - Village gossipsat the Well - Woman plucking maize' Full page

'Cleopatra from the picture by Alma Tadema RA' Wonderful double page with a blank reverse

'Sir Dinshaw Manouckjee Petit, Sherriff of Bombay'

The Late Right Rev. J. H. Titcomb DD, Formerly Bishop of Rangoon'

'St Petersburg Police Discovering a Nihilist Printing Press'

'Travelling in West America: Changing Station - Bull Whacker and Mule Skinner - A Warning to Horse Stealers, a hanging - Stage Coach on Runners (skis) - Fast in The Gumbo - Curious Trees in Red Canyon - A Curve on The Deadwood Road - Indians onThe Move - Western Types, Negro, Indian and Mexican - A Bull Train' Double page

Adverts of the Day

Also articles (no engravings) including 'Echoes of The Week'
The Silent Member '

'The Court' (movements of the royal family)

'The Ladies Column'

'Obituary including The Most Noble flora Paulyna Hetty Barbara, Duchess of Norfolk died at Arundel Castle aged 33 - The Right Hon. Charles Newdigate Newdegate died at his seat near Nuneaton - Colonel Sir William Owen Lanyon died at New York aged 45 '

May 7th

• The Manchester Royal Jubilee Exhibition Opened by the Prince of Wales.The Central Dome.
• Manchester Exhibition he Terra- Cotta Arcades.
• The Franco-German Incident.Schnaebele Arrested.
• Reception of British Naval Officers by the Mikado of Japan
• 12 engravings of pictures from the Royal Academy.
• Jubilee Fancy Dress Ball Portsmouth.

May 14th

• PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES AT KNUTSFORD

"After the storm" Double page by E. Morant Cox (Depicts families looking out on to a rough sea)

OPENING OF THE MANCHESTER ROYAL JUJBILEE EXHIBITION

ROYAL VISIT TO SALTAIRE

May 28th

• The Festivals at Florence Historical Procession.
• The Conte Verde Meeting the Gonfaloniere in the Piazza.
• Sketches of the Florence Festivals by Signor Fabri.
• New Buildings for the London Hospital.
• Lancashire Pit Brow Women.
• Sketches from the Grosvenor Gallery.
• The House of Commons Attending the Jubilee Service.
• The Newscastle Exhibition. Street View of Old Tyne Bridge.
• Sketches of the Painters Masque Royal Institute

June 11th

price sixpence.

It features articles with prints from engravings, &c. including

• 'The New Racing Yacht "Thistle", Built on The Clyde' (full front page),
• 'Mr. E. S. Hartland, Chairman of Library Committee, Swansea', 'Mr. Frank A. Yeo MP., Mayor of Swansea',
• 'Jubilee Fountain and Clock Tower, Gift of an American Citizen to Stratford on Avon, Mr George W. Childs of Philadelphia',
• 'New Public Library, Swansea',
• 'Earthslip in The Schachenthal, Canton URI, Switzerland, on the northern side of The Spitzen, between the hamlets of Spirigin and Unter-Schachen - six lives lost',
• 'De Kaap Gold Fields, Transvaal - Mr Alfred Woodhouse consulting Engineer' (small), 'De Kaap Gold Fields: The Sheba Mountains Showing The Reef on The Face of The Hill', 'De Kaap Gold Fields: Joe's Luck Mine , Sheba Reef',
• 'The Collision Between The S.S. Celtic and Britannic - Just After the Collision, The Celtic Lying Aft - The Bow of The Celtic After the Collision - The Britannic Escorted by The S.S. British Queen and The Marengo to New York - Just After the First Blow' (full page sketched by Mr. George Allen Rudd, Passenger on Board the Britannic),
• 'Sketches in and About Dorchester: High Street Dorchester - Maiden Castle - Judge Jeffreys' Lodgings - Roman Amphitheatre - Winterborne Came Rectory, Residence of The Late Rev. W. Barnes, The Dorset Poet - Dorchester, From The Show Field' (all on one full page),
• 'Prince of Wales at Dorchester meeting , Bath and West of England Agricultural Association: The Dairy - The Sheep Pen - The Grand Stand, The Prince Inspecting The Prize Cattle',
• 'Antiquarian Discoveries in Windsor Castle: Mouth of The Old Well in The Round Tower - The Old Sally Port, South Side - The Old Culvert Drain, North Side' (full page), 'Antiquarian Windsor: Plan of Windsor Castle - Section of the Round Tower and Mound - Ancient Norman Gateway',
• 'Firing of The 111 Ton Gun at Woolwich, The Largest Gun in Existence' (double page), Constructed at The Elswick Works, Newcastle by Sir W. Armstrong, Mitchell & Co.),
• 'A Meeting of The Colonial Conference, London, 1887 includes Sir R Thorburn of Newfoundland - Sir A. Shea, Newfoundaland - Sir S. Griffith, Queensland - Sir Saul Samuel, New South Wales - Mr. J. S. Dodds, Tasmania - Sir C. Mills, Cape - Sir A. Blyth, South Australia',
• Adverts = 'The Ammoniaphone, Medical Battery Co Ltd, 52 Oxford St W' , 'Mappin & Webb' , 'Maple & Co Furnishing Establishment, Tottenham Court Road, London, W' , 'Redfern Ladies Taylor To HRH The Princess of Wales, 26 & 27 Conduit St, and 27 New Bond Street London, W' , 'Tamar Indien Grillon for Constipation, Hemorrhoids &c' , 'J. W. Bensons Queens Watchmaker' .
• Also articles (no engravings) including 'The Silent Member',
• 'The Queens Golden Jubilee',
• 'Carl Rosa Opera Company',
• 'Obituary includes Sir Robert North Collie Hamilton Baronet of Silverton Hill - Thomas Spencer Baynes LL.D Professor of Logic, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics University of St Andrews - Major General Alexander Hadden Lindsay CB at Riverstone, Banchory - Major Rolla Rouse of Fern Hill, Melton, Suffolk - Commissary General George Adams at 47 Queens Gate, Lancaster Gate',
• 'The Playhouses', 'Literature', 'Chess', 'Ladies Column',
• 'A Century Ago - January 1787
• 'Wills and Bequests

June 25th

price sixpence.

with a large supplement pullout of The Jubilee Service in Westminster Abbey

It features prints from engravings (often with descriptive articles) including:

• 'Jubilee Thanksgiving Festival in London: The Royal Procession Leaving Buckingham Palace' Front page 'Regent Street'
• Royal Procession Passing The Guards Memorial in Waterloo Place'

'On The Victoria Embankment'

'Trafalgar Square' Full page

'Building the Stack on the Malvern Beacon' smal

'Jubilee Mug Given to Each of The Thirty Thousand Children in Hyde Park'

'The Queensx Jubilee Orchid Bouguet'

'Arrival of The Queen at The West Door of Westminster Abbey' Wonderful Double Page

'Whitehall'

'The Bank of England, Illuminated'

'Illumination of The Calton Hill, Edinburgh'

'The Prince of Wales Starting the Jubilee Yacht Race' Full page

'Beechams Pills' Full page Advert

A huge pullout supplement of The Jubilee Thanksgiving Service in Westminster Abbey, June 21, 1887' measuring 740x510mm (29x20") approx plus borders

'Queen Victoria'.

'Jubilee Assemblage of Thirty Thousand London School Children in Hyde Park' Wonderful Double Page, an aerial view

July 23rd

• Front Cover: Portraits of Monsignore Ruffo Scilla (Special Envoy from the Pope) and Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg (Price Elect of Bulgaria) The Queen laying the Foundation-Stone of the Statue of Prince Albert (Women’s Jubilee Offering) in Windsor Park
• Inspection of Volunteer Medical Staff Corps in the Grounds of Lambeth Palace
• New Townhall at Barrow-In-Furness, North Lancashire (Full-page)

A Moorland Stream by R. Taylor (Full-page)

Double-Page Spread of the Jubilee Review at Aldershott: Royal Horse Artillery Moving Up to Take Position

Sketches of Bits of Old London

Country Cousins at the Royal Academy Exhibition (Full-page)

Gordon Brown Drawing to Supplement Miser Farebrother Novella

H.M.S. Inflexible (Flag-Ship) Full-page

H.M.S. Monarch (Full-page)

Illustration Advertising Beecham’s Pills (Full-page)

H.M.S. Ajax (Full-page)

H.M.S. Sultan, H.M.S. Invincible, H.M.S. Devastation, H.M.S. Glatton (One Page)

H.M.S. Ajax (Full-page)

H.M.S. Minotaur, H.M.S. Agincourt, H.M.S. Hercules (One page)

H.M.S. Imperieuse (Full-page) See Photo

H.M.S. Collingwood (Full-page) See Photo

July 30th

• Front Cover: The Queen’s Jubilee Naval Review at Spithead
• The Queen’s Arrival from the Alberta on Board the Victoria and Albert: The Fleet Saluting
• Manning the Yards
• Spectators on Board a Ship at the Queen’s Jubilee Naval Review

Double-Page Spread of the Victoria and Albert Passing Down the Centre between the Lines of Ironclads

Sketches Taken on Board the Silvertown (India Rubber, Gutta Percha, and the Telegraph works Company

The Prince of Wales Receiving Foreign Naval Officers on Board the Victoria and Albert

Drawing by Gordon Brown as Supplement to Novella Miser Farebrother

Double-Page Spread of Models of Old English Ships of War

Pictures from the Christmas Edition

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