Original 15 March 1887 issue of The Illustrated Sydney News, Vol. XXIV, No. 3, published in Sydney.

The front page features a large portrait of Sir Henry Parkes, K.C.M.G., one of the most significant political figures in colonial New South Wales and later a key figure in the movement toward Australian Federation.

The issue contains a particularly strong selection of Australian subjects, including “Bathers and Anglers at Coogee Bay”, “Sticking Up the Wagga Coach”, and a large illustrated feature on a Sydney tramway incident, giving excellent insight into transport and everyday life in 1880s New South Wales.

Other notable material includes the Sydney Art Society, theatrical coverage of “Nell Gwynne” at the Criterion Theatre, and a dramatic fireworks display given in the Domain.

Maritime subjects are also strongly represented, including a singular accident off the coast of New Caledonia and the collision of the Waratah and Emu at Circular Quay.

Further content includes incidents in the experience of an Australian jury, commercial architecture in Sydney, and a substantial period advertisement for J. S. Fry & Sons Cocoa and Chocolate, illustrated with a bush scene titled “Lost in the Bush.”

A strong colonial Australian issue with appeal to collectors of Sir Henry Parkes, Federation history, bushrangers and coach hold-ups, Wagga Wagga, Sydney trams, Circular Quay, maritime history, Coogee, New Caledonia and 19th-century Australiana.