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![[picture: Front Cover, The Leisure Hour]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1896/tn/000-Front-Cover-348x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, The Leisure Hour]")
Images and extracts from “The Leisure Hour” collected edition of 1896. It was published in London, where copyright lasts until 70 years after a person’s death. There is no editor credited, and usually no artist or engraver, but it’s not inconceivable that a twenty-year-old could have worked on this edition and lived to be over seventy. I have marked the images as being for non-commercial use only, but if you determine that an image is out of copyright, go ahead and use it as you will.
Title: The Leisure Hour
Published by: The Leisure Hour
City: London
Date: 1896
Total items: 17
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![[picture: Molly Sat Waiting For Her Father]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1896/wm/big/343-Molly-Sat-Waiting-For-Her-Father-q75-134x200.jpg "[picture: Molly Sat Waiting For Her Father]")
Molly Sat Waiting For Her Father
An attrctive young lady sits gazing out of an open window into a rose garden. She is dressed in Victorian costume, with a tight corset. She is in love. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Front Cover, The Leisure Hour]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1896/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-139x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, The Leisure Hour]")
Blue cloth with black and gold printing; a fine cover for this collection of The Leisure Hour from 1896. [$]
![[picture: Sounding the irons]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1896/wm/big/573-securing-the-irons-q75-168x200.jpg "[picture: Sounding the irons]")
Some two dozen men are waiting in an archway leading back to prison cells as a guard, in French uniform of the eighteenth or early nineteenth century bends with a hammer to check the manacle and chain on the angle of the first prisoner, which he has raised for the purpose. The chain seems to go back from that [...] [more...] [$]
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![[picture: Golden Strings]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1896/wm/big/342-Golden-Strings-q85-102x200.jpg "[picture: Golden Strings]")
![[picture: Axis Deer (Calcutta)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1896/wm/big/499-Axis-Deer-q75-228x200.jpg "[picture: Axis Deer (Calcutta)]")
