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![[picture: Front Cover, El Mundo Ilustrado]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/tn/000-cover-q85-346x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, El Mundo Ilustrado]")
El Mundo Ilustrado was a Spanish periodical that was published from 1879 to 1892, aimed at wealthier middle-class people who knew about other countries. Originally published every two weeks, thirty-two pages at a time, the magazine included serialized novels as well as illustrations from famous artists and engravers; many of the articles were translated from other languages. There are even fold-out pictures.
The single undated volume that I have was sitting on a filing cabinet in a second-hand bookshop in Lisbon, Livraria Sá da Costa, which was next door to a hotel where I had to stay overnight because of a missed flight. Apparently there may have been coloured plates in the book at one time, but my copy lacks these.
Title: El Mundo Ilustrado
Published by: Espasa y Compañía
City: Barcelona
Date: 1883
Total items: 14
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: The insects look upon a giant dam]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/wm/big/246b-giant-dam-q75-136x200.jpg "[picture: The insects look upon a giant dam]")
The insects look upon a giant dam
Two insects wearing top hats (as they do) sit on a leaf and look at a large dam, probably hydro-electric, in the distance. The dam is surmounted by a huge statue of a lion, and there’s a building at the [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Quinta Giustiniani en Pádua]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/wm/big/233-quinta-giustiniani-en-padua-q75-147x200.jpg "[picture: Quinta Giustiniani en Pádua]")
![[picture: Front Cover, El Mundo Ilustrado]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/wm/big/000-cover-q75-139x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, El Mundo Ilustrado]")
Front Cover, El Mundo Ilustrado
This magazine was originally sold in fortnightly issues, with 26 of them (I think) bound into one volume; the copy I have lost its covers before I bought it (which is why I could afford it!) so what you see in this picture is the first page of the first 32-page issue of the volume, [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: The ogre pulled the children out from under the bed]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/wm/big/216-big-and-little-q75-158x200.jpg "[picture: The ogre pulled the children out from under the bed]")
The ogre pulled the children out from under the bed
Seven tiny children—or rather, seven children in an oversized room—no taller than the ankles of the ogre bending over to pick them up. The children are praying, supplication, kneeling (one barefoot) but to no avail. Behind him. the ogre’s wife looks on with dismay as the ogre, giant [...] [more...] [$]
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![[picture: Venus and Cupid]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/wm/big/277-venus-and-cupid-q75-241x200.jpg "[picture: Venus and Cupid]")
