Title: The English Illustrated Magazine. Five Uniformly Bound Volumes. 
Publisher: Macmillan & Co: London.
Published Dates: 1883 - 1888.
Condition: Very Good. 
 
About the publication: "In the fiercely competitive serial publication market of the English capital in the late nineteenth century The English Illustrated Magazine achieved greatness by publishing first-rate illustrators and writers of fiction. Although its features included articles on travel and topography, it was chiefly a vehicle for the late Victorian fiction of Max Beerbohm, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Stanley J. Weyman, and Max Pemberton. It also published poetry by A. C. Swinburne and Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar”. Under its third editor, the celebrated and prolific Clement King Shorter, it published two stories by George Gissing: "The Fate of Humphrey Snell" (October 1895) and "An Inspiration" (December 1895). Its gifted illustrators included such luminaries of British commercial art as Walter Crane, Carlo Perugini, Alma-Tadema, Louis Davis, Louis Wain, and Fred Barnard."[Credit to the Victorian Web for this synopsis]
 
Condition: 
This really is a stunning set of five volumes of The English Illustrated Magazine. Uniformly half bound in leather with marbled boards. Five raised bands to the spines with gilt lettering over a red leather title band. Each volumes is in very good condition. Firmly bound, square with no loose pages. All volumes have some rubbing and bumping to the extremities and some surface scuffing to the leather - the marbled boards are all very good with only light wear. The contents to all volumes are clean and bright with some foxing/browning to the preliminary pages. 
 
The volumes included are: 
1883-4 (Oct 1883-Sept 1884)
1884-5 (Oct 1884-Sept 1885)
1885-6 (Oct 1885-Sept 1886)
1886-7 (Oct 1886-Sept 1887)
1887-8 (Oct 1887-Sept 1888)