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A twenty three page (forty six sides) issue of

"The Sketch"

Weekly Magazine dated 1893 price sixpence.

A wonderful insight into theatre, stage, royalty, society, sport, fashion and many other activities of the day "a journal of art and actuality".

It features articles with prints from engravings, photogravures etc. including :

' Miss Hilda Brassey ' Front page (which is detached and somewhat brittle and tattered around the edges )

' Lord Settrington '

' Mrs Patrick Campbell as The Second Mrs Tanqueray ' full page photograph by Alfred Ellis

The Derby ' Scene on the Course ' - - - ' ' The Grand Stand ' - - - ' Enter The Favourite '

' Last Weeks Paris - A Bridal part on the Rounderbouts at the Esplanade - - - Dinner at the Cafe des Ambassadeurs on Sunday ' full page by Villedebois

'Types of English Beauty - Miss Hope Temple ' a full page - a Photograph by Bassano within an engraved border by Ada Brooke

' Courting in the Zuyder Zee ' full page sketch by MARS

' Lady Burton '

' Lady Burton's Drawing Room in Baker Street ' 67 Baker Street I Think

' Mr Walter Herries Pollock '

' Mister Pollocks Book Plate '

' A viking Ship '

' Horse Guards Parade - Arrival of the Commander in Chief '

' Band Marching Past at the Horse Guards Parade '

' Leading Company of Guards '

' Jersey - Town Regiment Passing Through the Streets of St Helier ...'

' Guernsey The Great Review at St Peter Port '

Art of the Day

' Bernardin De St pierre '

'Half Afraid by G. Hillyard Swinstead ' full page - two little girls and some geese

' The Ruined Sanctuary by S. E. Waller '

' The Valley of the Llugwy by B. W. Leader '

' A La France! In Alsace le 14 Juillet Miel by J. J. Enders ' full page

' L'Orde du Cardinal by B. Brozik ' full page

' Madame Albani as Elsa ' full page photograph by Sarony of New York - info. Dame Emma Albani Canadian Opera Singer was born Marie Louise Emma Cecile Lajeunesse in Chambly Quebec

' Madame Albani as Elsa '

' Madame Albani '

' Loves Blind ' full page by Saubier

' Miss Vesta Victoria in Her Skirt Dance ' full page by RED

' The Light Side of Nature - Old Lady and Master George ' comical full page sketch by Dudley Hardy

' The Crocodiles Outwitted ' a wonderful full page comical sketch by Rene Bull

Full page comical sketch by R.I.W. ?

' The Microbe Farmer Who Milks His Cows in the pig Yard ' full page comical sketch by J. F. Sullivan

' The Milkmans Courtship - A London Idyl ' full page sketches and comical poem by Walker Hodgson

' Legal Expressions ' full page courtroom sketch by E. T. R

Full page comical sketch by R.A.B

Four small engravings "Purchases from the Spitzer Collection"

A Womans Dinner - Miss Mathilde Blind - Lady Lindsay - Mrs L. T. Meade - Mrs Molesworth - Miss Adeline Sergeant - Miss Lowe - small sketches

Full page comical sketch by Goodwin

The International Billiard Match - two small sketches by Ernest Goodwin

' The Cycle Races at Herne Hill '

' Mr Smurthwaite '

' Gilderoy Scamp The King of the Kentish Gypsies '

' Fashions - Mrs patrick Campbells Cloak in Act I - - - Two other of her gowns and fans - - - Miss Maude Millett's Gowns ' fashion sketches by Pirola

(This page is detached , torn, somewhat brittle and tattered around the edges )

The Marriage of Lord Settrington and Miss Hilda Brassey

A chat With Mrs Patric Campbell

The Ladies Dinner - The Muses of the Would Be Waiters - a poem by Terra Cotta

Our Own Country

Last Weeks Paris by Mimosa

The Literary Lounger

Small Talk

A Chat with Lady Burton

On Which The Sun Never Sets

Hors D'Oeuvres by MArmiton

A Novel In a Nutshell - The Sculptors Contest by Clarice Klein ...short story

Behind Her Fan - poem

The Book and Its Story - Bernardin De St Pierre by JDC

Tete a Tete With Great Singers - Madame Albani Gye

Racing Notes By Captain Coe

A Kentish Gilderoy

Badminton Echoes by Bugle

Notes from the Exchange by S. Simon Esq of Lamb, Shearer and Co of Capel Court - - a stockbrokers column I think

Our Ladies Pages - by Florence

Parliament By a "Cautious Conservative" - - - Parliament By "A Rash Radical" - with reference to Another Gladstone Chamberlain Encounter - - The Battle of the Whips - - Lord Wolmer and Two Amendments - - Will Mr Gladstone Shelve The Bill? - The Progress of Debate - - etc

It measures 360mmx250mm (14.5x10") approx. The Front and back pages are detached. The spine and some pages are loose where once bound. The Front page has several tears to edge. There is age yellowing to the edges. The page edges are a little brittle. As far as I can tell there is one page missing

PLEASE NOTE :- I cannot guarantee that the issue is complete 'as published' - but what I have described above IS present

The Banners in the scan may vary.

This item will be packaged in a tube unless otherwise requested.