Key Data: The Illustrated London News
Proprietors
1842-1848 Herbert Ingram & Nathaniel Cooke
1848-1860 Herbert Ingram
1860-1871 Anne Ingram
1872-(1905) William J. Ingram & Charles L.N. Ingram
Publishers & Printers
1842 Joseph Clayton at 320, Strand (publisher); Robert Palmer at 10, Crane Court, Fleet Street (printer)
1843-1857 William Little at 198, Strand (both)
1858-1883 George C. Leighton at 198, Strand (both)
1884-(1905) William & Charles Ingram at 198, Strand (both)
Chief Editors
1842-1848 F.W.N. Bayley
1848-1859 Charles Mackay
1860-1862 William J. Stewart
1863-1890 John Lash Latey
1891-1900 C.K. Shorter
1900-(1963) Bruce S. Ingram
General Format
From 16 pages (in 1840s) to 32 (in 1890s), of small folio size (15.5in x 11.5in), with 3 cols of letterpress, featuring from 30 engravings (in 1840s) to over 50 (by 1890s) from half-column to double-page size. Many editorial and pictorial supplements, notably holiday numbers at Christmas (from 1874) and Summer (from 1881).
Frequency: Weekly on Saturdays
Standard Price: Sixpence (Fivepence 1855-71)
Circulation
Attested: (Official stamp returns) 41,000 (1843); 57,000 (1848); 123,000 (1854). Reported: 200,000 following repeal of newspaper stamp in 1855; 310,000 for issue on marriage of Prince of Wales in 1863 (The Illustrated London News, 13 May 1967, 42-3). Holiday issues in 1880s sometimes sold more than 500,000 (Deacon’s, 1886, 84).
Files Consulted
School of Politics and Economics Library, Waseda University
Tokyo University Library
British Library Newspaper Library
Exeter University Library
Issues Indexed
119 volumes/3271 numbers, plus unnumbered special issues:
Vol. 1 (Nos 1-34): 14 May-31 Dec 1842 to Vol. 119 (Nos 3246-3271): 6 July-28 Dec 1901
Key Data: The Graphic
Managing Directors
1869-1900 William L. Thomas
1900-(1917) Carmichael Thomas
Publishers & Printers
1869-1872 E.J. Mansfield at 190, Strand (publisher); R. Clay, Sons, & Taylor at 7-8, Bread Street Hill (printer)
1873-1893 E.J. Mansfield at 190, Strand (publishing) and 12, Milford Lane (printing)
1894-1895 G.R. Parker at 190, Strand (publishing) and 12, Milford Lane (printing)
1895-(1903) G.R. Parker & A.F. Thomas at 190, Strand (publishing) and 12, Milford Lane (printing)
Chief Editors
1869-1870 H. Sutherland Edwards
1870-1891 Arthur Locker
1891-(1906) T.H. Joyce
General Format
From 24 pages (in early 1870s) to 32 (in later 1890s), of small folio size (15.5in x 11.5in), with 3 cols of letterpress (sometimes 2 in earliest issues), featuring at least 20 engravings mainly of larger size. Many editorial and pictorial supplements, notably holiday numbers at Christmas (from 1869) and Summer (from 1878).
Frequency: Weekly on Saturdays
Standard Price: Sixpence
Reported Circulation
Christmas number (1871) 200,000 (Der Verlag, 76-7). Christmas number (1872) 200,000; Tichborne number (1874) 250,000 (Altick, 395). Regular issues in 1880s occasionally 250,000; Christmas numbers for 1881, 1882 more than 500,000 (Deacon’s, 1886, 114).
Files Consulted
Central Library, Waseda University
Tokyo University Library
British Library
Newspaper Library
Exeter University Library
Issues Indexed
64 volumes/1674 numbers, plus unnumbered special issues:
Vol. 1 (Nos 1-30): 4 Dec 1869-25 June 1870 to Vol. 64 (Nos 1649-1674): 6 July-28 Dec 1901