9 Victorian Literary Advertising Leaves Wilkie Collins Charles Reade John Leech For Sale

Collection of 9 Victorian Literary Advertising Leaves – 19th CenturyA collection of nine original-looking Victorian printed literary advertising leaves, promoting novels, serialised fiction, magazines and publishers’ forthcoming works.Printed on various coloured papers, these advertisements feature prominent nineteenth-century literary figures, including Wilkie Collins, Charles Reade, John Leech, Erckmann-Chatrian and Charles Lever.Publishers represented include Smith, Elder & Co., Cassell, Bradbury & Evans, James Nisbet & Co. and Walter Scott.The advertisements include Man and Wife, Plain or Ringlets?, The Story of the Plebiscite, The Bramleighs of Bishop’s Folly and other Victorian publications.Historical interestThese advertisements provide an insight into Victorian literary publishing and the marketing of serial fiction, when novels were frequently published in instalments in popular magazines.Format and conditionNine separate, loose, single-sheet printed advertisements, dating approximately from the 1860s to the 1880s.Age-related wear, discolouration, irregular and torn edges, and remnants of paper attachment to some sheets, consistent with removal from larger publications.Please examine both photographs for the condition of each item.Sold together as one collection of nine pieces.An interesting group for collectors of Victorian literature, publishing history, antiquarian books and printed ephemera.