1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21

1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21

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1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21
  • 1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21
  • 1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21
  • 1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21
  • 1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21
  • 1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21
  • 1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21
  • 1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21
  • 1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21
  • 1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21
  • 1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21
  • 1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21
  • 1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21
  • 1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21
  • 1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21
  • 1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21
  • 1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21
  • 1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21
  • 1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21
  • 1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21
  • 1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21
1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21

1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21

$44.44
1877 Grant in London, Caxton First Printer, Russian Torpedo Boats — Jul 21 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · July 21, 1877 Complete Issue + Supplement Pages · New York ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A wonderfully varied issue featuring General Grant's reception in London during his post-presidency world tour, a historic double-page tribute to William Caxton, the first English printer, a Fourth of July dinner for Philadelphia's newsboys, and a supplement with detailed technical illustrations of Russian torpedo boats and a portrait of the future Tsar Alexander III. Strong content for collectors of American presidential history, printing history, and naval technology. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎩 GENERAL GRANT IN LONDON ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏛️ TWO-THIRDS PAGE — "PRESENTATION OF THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF LONDON TO GENERAL GRANT" A significant illustration documenting former President Ulysses S. Grant's reception in London, where he was presented with the Freedom of the City — one of Britain's highest civic honors. Grant had left office in March 1877 and embarked on what would become a remarkable two-year world tour, and his ceremonial welcome in London was an early and prestigious stop, reflecting his standing as a global statesman even after leaving the presidency. A significant piece of American presidential history and Grant's post-presidency career. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖼️ THE FRONT PAGE & INSIDE THE ISSUE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💃 FULL FRONT PAGE — "THE REIGNING BELLE" A full front-page illustration depicting a fashionable society belle — a charming piece of Gilded Age social genre illustration. 🌊 FULL PAGE — "OLD NEPTUNE'S WELCOME" A full-page illustration with a maritime theme, depicting Neptune's welcome — a vivid piece of Victorian nautical and mythological genre art. 📜 TWO-THIRDS DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — "WILLIAM CAXTON, THE FIRST ENGLISH PRINTER, SHOWING PRINTED PROOF TO EDWARD IV" A handsome historical centerfold depicting William Caxton, who introduced the printing press to England in 1476, presenting a printed proof to King Edward IV. Caxton's introduction of printing technology to England was one of the most consequential events in the history of English literature and communication, and this scene imagines that pivotal moment of royal patronage. A significant and very displayable piece for collectors of printing history, book history, and English Renaissance history. 🗽 FULL PAGE — "FOURTH OF JULY DINNER GIVEN TO THE PHILADELPHIA NEWSBOYS BY MR. GEORGE W. CHILDS" A full-page illustration of a Fourth of July dinner hosted for Philadelphia's newsboys by George W. Childs, the prominent Philadelphia publisher and philanthropist known for his generous treatment of the working children who sold his newspapers. A warm and significant piece of American philanthropic and labor history, capturing Gilded Age efforts to support child laborers in the newspaper trade. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚔️ THE SUPPLEMENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👑 ONE-THIRD PAGE PORTRAIT — "THE GRAND DUKE ALEXANDER ALEXANDROVITCH, HEIR-APPARENT TO THE THRONE OF RUSSIA" A portrait of the Grand Duke who would become Tsar Alexander III in 1881 upon the assassination of his father, Alexander II. At the time of this portrait, the future Tsar was serving with the Russian army during the opening campaigns of the Russo-Turkish War. A significant piece of Russian imperial history. 🪖 HALF PAGE — "THE ROCK OF GIBRALTAR — THE NEUTRAL GROUND VIEWED FROM THE SPANISH FRONTIER" A half-page panoramic view of Gibraltar seen from the Spanish frontier — a striking geographic and military landmark, captured at a quiet, contemplative remove from the more turbulent war news elsewhere in the issue. 🐕 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — "WHAT'S THAT?" (from a drawing by H. Woods) A beautifully rendered double-page genre illustration after a drawing by H. Woods — a young woman in a garden setting, pausing as two small terrier dogs react alertly to something unseen. A charming and very frameable piece of Victorian genre art. 🚤 ONE-THIRD PAGE — "STEEL TORPEDO VESSEL USED BY THE RUSSIANS ON THE DANUBE" A detailed illustration of the steel torpedo boats deployed by Russian forces on the Danube during the Russo-Turkish War — cutting-edge naval technology of the period, used to threaten Ottoman shipping and defend the vital river crossings that sustained the Russian invasion of Bulgaria. ⚙️ ONE-THIRD PAGE — "SECTION OF RUSSIAN STEEL TORPEDO VESSEL" A detailed technical cutaway diagram of the Russian torpedo boat's interior, labeling the positions of the captain, torpedoist, stoker, and engineer, along with the boat's spar torpedo apparatus. An exceptional and rare technical document of 1870s naval engineering, offering a level of mechanical detail unusual even for Harper's Weekly's typically thorough war coverage. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 CONDITION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 DETAILS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Publication ········ Harper's Weekly Date ··············· July 21, 1877 City ··············· New York Item Number ········ 174158 Pages ·············· Complete in 16 pages + Supplement Format ············· Illustrated folio newspaper ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📦 SHIPPING & PRESERVATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Housed in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 148-year-old newsprint • Flat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure safe arrival of the centerfold and supplement • Fully tracked for your peace of mind ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍 SEO TAGS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ General Grant London 1877, Grant Freedom of the City, Grant world tour 1877, President Grant post-presidency, Ulysses S Grant antique print, Grant London reception Victorian, American presidential history print, William Caxton first printer, Caxton printing press history, Caxton Edward IV printing, English printing history antique, book history collector print, Gutenberg era English printing, George W Childs newsboys, Philadelphia newsboys dinner, Fourth of July newsboys, Gilded Age child labor history, American philanthropy Victorian, newspaper boys history, Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovitch, future Tsar Alexander III, Russian imperial portrait Victorian, Romanov heir apparent, Rock of Gibraltar Victorian, Gibraltar Spanish frontier, Gibraltar military landmark, Victorian Mediterranean geography, Russian torpedo boat Danube, steel torpedo vessel Russian, Russo-Turkish War naval technology, torpedo boat technical diagram, 1870s naval engineering print, Harper's Weekly 1877, antique newspaper 1877, Victorian illustrated newspaper, Gilded Age newspaper, antique illustration engraving, Victorian wall art, framing quality print, presidential history collector, printing history collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera, Gilded Age ephemera

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