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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: Venus and Cupid]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/wm/big/277-venus-and-cupid-q75-241x200.jpg "[picture: Venus and Cupid]")
![[picture: Engraving of smiling urchin boy carrying sack and vegetables]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/wm/big/049-barefoot-boy-isolated-q75-85x200.jpg "[picture: Engraving of smiling urchin boy carrying sack and vegetables]")
Engraving of smiling urchin boy carrying sack and vegetables
A smiling boy, wearing somewhat tattered clothing and barefoot, stands holding perhaps turnips in one hand and with the other a sack over his shoulder. The clothes look warm enough for early Autumn, and [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: The ogre pulled the children out from under the bed]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/wm/big/216-big-and-little-q75-158x200.jpg "[picture: The ogre pulled the children out from under the bed]")
The ogre pulled the children out from under the bed
Seven tiny children—or rather, seven children in an oversized room—no taller than the ankles of the ogre bending over to pick them up. The children are praying, supplication, kneeling (one barefoot) but to no avail. Behind him. the ogre’s wife looks on with dismay as the ogre, giant [...] [more...] [$]
![[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: Little people at the door---wallpaper]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/wm/big/152-goblins-at-the-door-wallpaper-q85-320x200.jpg "[picture: Little people at the door---wallpaper]")
Little people at the door—wallpaper
This is a detail from little people at the door to the house in the forest, showing the children at an old stone house in a clearing in a scary ancient forest. [more...] [$]
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