The Illustrated Police News: The Shocks, Scandals & Sensations of the Week 1864-1938

by Linda Stratmann

CHILD CARRIED OFF BY EAGLE LION'S ADVENTURES IN A PLAYGROUND MAN KILLED BY A COFFIN The Illustrated Police News cost just a penny, providing an affordable illustrated roundup of "all the startling events of the week" from its first issue published on February 20, 1864. Promising to educate the people with fantastic features such as "BURGLARIES OF THE WEEK" and its bountiful, often outlandish, illustrations, the paper was also a perhaps unexpected...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071235249X
• ISBN13: 9780712352499
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: British Library
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.3"