1861 Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper Reissue, Four Different Complete Issue

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This listing is for four different complete reissued copies of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper dated February 16, 1861, September 11, 1861, September 28, 1861, and October 5, 1861.  Each full-sized 11 1/2" x 16," 16-page issue is in new condition, with news of the Civil War plus many very interesting advertisements.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper was an American illustrated literary and news magazine founded in 1855 and published until 1922.  Throughout its existence, the weekly provided illustrations and reports—first with wood engravings and daguerreotypes, later with more advanced forms of photography—of wars from John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry and the Civil War until the Spanish–American War and the First World War.
The first years of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper were difficult, with the nation undergoing a business crisis in 1857.  The drama of the massive American Civil War in 1861, though, ensured the success of Leslie's Newspaper, as tens of thousands of readers turned to Leslie for their sometimes lurid illustrations of the bloody conflict.  A "Leslie's" freelancer, James R. O'Neill, is believed to have been the only Civil War correspondent killed in action in the Civil War.  No daily newspaper in America consistently carried illustrations until the launch of the New York Daily Graphic in 1873, by which time Leslie's Newspaper was a massive and prosperous concern, employing more than 300 people, including 70 illustrators.  Surviving issues today are highly prized as collectors' items for vividly depicting American life during the seven decades of its existence. Many distinguished writers were featured in its pages.  (Wikipedia)