(#133090) ART ONCE A. WEEK: AN ILLUSTRATED MISCELLANY OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, POPULAR INFORMATION. July - December 1860, Samuel Lucas, POPULAR INFORMATION. July - December 1860 ., volume 3.

London: Bradbury & Evans, July-December 1860 (volume 3). Large octavo, 6 issues, bound together in nineteenth-century three-quarter leather and marbled boards. A literary miscellany founded by Bradbury & Evans, proprietors of PUNCH, following the termination of their joint ownership with Charles Dickens of HOUSEHOLD WORLDS. To distinguish ONCE A WEEK from Dickens' publications, the proprietors "would stress illustrations and charge a slightly higher price, give opportunity to unknown contributors, allow writers the option of signing their contributions, and avoid programs of social reform or party allegiances. The content would be general articles of good quality, to appeal to generally middle-class, liberal-minded readers of fair educational standard." - Sullivan, British Literary Magazines: The Victorian and Edwardian Age, 1837-1913, p. 287. Artists contributing illustrations to these issues include Hablot K. Browne, George Du Maurier, John Leech, T. R. Macquoid, J. E. Millais, John Tenniel and others. Featured serials in these numbers were George Meredith's EVAN HARRINGTON and Shirley Brooks' THE SILVER CORD. In spite of its literary merits, ONCE A WEEK was a commercial failure (it expired in 1880). ONCE A WEEK "was a respectable literary miscellany. Its writers were among the finest of those contributing to any popular Victorian periodical. And its contribution to the history of book-illustration art was outstanding." - Sullivan, p. 292. Binding scuffed but sound, a few short tears to page edges, but internally nearly fine overall. These issues are from the magazine's best period. (#133090).

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