2 illustrated articles from a rare Victorian 1898 periodical - the first article is entitled "The White Magician - A faithful portrait of Thomas Alva Edison" 7 pages by Rudolph De Cordova

Very interesting old article full of information about the "Greatest inventor the world has ever seen" with several illustrations including

Edison in his laboratory

Edison at age 14

Edisons workshop

Mr, Mrs, Master, and Miss Edison

Edisons house

Edison method of killing cockroaches

The second article is entitled "Show Cats" 5 pages by G B Burgin. Very interesting article detailing the history of cat shows from the idea of Harrison Weir and the cats- several illustrations including

A prize litter

Going to the show

A prize black Persian Kitten

Wooloomooloo champion blue persian

Lord Argent champion chinchilla

Chili prize blue persian

Siamese cat

Good types of long haired cats opposite in character (Illustration by Louis Wain)

CONDITION Please note these are genuine actual pages extracted from a rare disbound Victorian magazine, there are no covers and there may be extracts from other articles at the start or end. Images show the article whilst in its still bound state, the article will be posted as loose pages. Some pages may be showing signs of foxing / browning due to the age of the paper