Young Folk's Weekly Budget: Grand Christmas Number (1878)
This cover depicts a winter scene titled "Grandfather's Wooling," showing figures gathered beneath a bare tree near a cottage. Ivy-bordered decorative panels frame the composition, with classical figures adorning the corners. The engraving captures a moment of domestic activity in a snow-covered landscape.
Young Folk's Weekly Budget was a penny weekly British story paper aimed at young readers, featuring serialized tales of adventure, historical romance, school life, and sea stories. Published in the 1870s-80s, it offered affordable entertainment to working and middle-class youth through illustrated fiction and serialized narratives. This Grand Christmas Number exemplifies the festive, sentimental imagery the publication used to attract seasonal readership during the Victorian period.
About this artifact
- Date
- December 28, 1878
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by ComicBooks.com · high-resolution version available.
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