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Young Folk's Weekly Budget: Grand Christmas Number
· December 28, 1878
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.
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