1874 ILLUSTRATED CHRISTIAN WEEKLY. Revival in Scotland, Mormonism, Temperance, Women's Rights, &c 16 Inches Tall!

Even though this periodical was one of the most popular in America, finding an annual bound volumes of it is now extremely rare. The illustrations were exceptionally good for a weekly, including many full-page engravings, and extant volumes have often been long ago looted. 

Measuring a whopping 12 x 16 inches, this was was the publication for socially progressive Evangelicals in America. It was pro-working class, pro women's rights, pro-temperance, etc., and also decidedly Evangelical, including sermons, articles, etc., by powerhouse preachers and authors of the time like D. L. Moody, T. De Witt Talmage, W. M. Taylor, and more. 

All years are excellent; though this one particularly of interest with first-hand accounts of the then-ongoing revival in Scotland and Ireland under Messrs Moody & Sankey. 

Illustrated Christian Weekly. January through December, 1874. 52 Issues Complete. 624pp. 

Contents include: Biography and illustration of Philip Phillips; A Happy Christmas by William Arnot; How Chromos Are Made [Chromolithographs; Superbly Illustrated]; My American Holiday - As Related at a Holiday Party by Joseph Parker [Series - We don't believe published elsewhere]; The Tempted Minister [Great Awakening - George Whitefield]; Textual Helps from Bible Lands by C. S. Robinson; The Boston Young Women's Christian Association Fair by F. P. Chaplin; A Good Woman's Rights Movement; Wounding to Heal by William Arnot; The Gospel in Japan; The Bengal Famine; Italian Slave Children; Folio Engraving of Professor Louis Agassiz; An Unscriptural Divorce; Falling Stars and Meteoric Showers; A Novel Temperance Movement [where women go and preach and pray in the saloons]; The Revival in Edinburgh [First-hand accounts of D. L. Moody and the revival in Scotland]; David Livingstone [with superb illustration]; Booth's Theatre; Sex in Education; Woodward's Marine Aquarium by T. M. Dawson [lavishly illustrated]; Biography and Large Format Illustratin of William Arnot; Factory Children; Investigating the Liquor Traffic; Biography of Thomas Guthrie; Biography and Fine Engraving of T. De Witt Talmage; The Temperance Crusade; Maula Loa and the Volcano Eruption in the Sandwich Islands / Hawaii by Mary Mayne; History of Quarantine and the Plague / Yellow Fever [Illustrated]; Double folio engraving "The Deadly Combat" [measuring 16 x 24 inches; with tear]; More on the Revival at Edinburgh [First-hand accounts]; Taxing Churches; The Prodigal by William Arnot; Superb Full-Page Temperance Engraving; A Wonderful Plan [never materialized] for Pneumatic Underground Transit [p.172]; The Erie War; Shall We Drink Brandy; Nagkon Wat, Siam [Beautifully illustrated]; Prayer-Meeting Diffidence by H. D. Northup; Breaking Away from Evil by Hezekiah Butterworth; A Provoking Mistake by William Arnot; Full Page Engraving of Stephen H. Tyng [with biography]; Familiar Letters on Preaching by S. H. Tyng [series]; Inspiration of Christian Enthusiasm by John Hall; The Bowdoin College Rebellion; Travelling in Turkey by Missionary Cyrus Hamlin; The Scotch Revival Now in Glasgow [Moody]; A Brewer's Defense [against temperance]; The Third Temptation. the Crown without the Cross by W. M. Taylor; Full Page Satirical Temperance Engraving; The Bible on Total Abstinence; Beautiful Engravings - Curiosities of Civilization in the Heart of Africa [p.316]; Modern Slavery and the Emancipation by Miss M. Keep [Feminism, Women's Rights, etc.]; Teaching Finance to the Freedmen; Megrim, or the Ugly Dwarf [by T. M.; Illustrated on Dwarfism, Midgets, etc. p.356]; The Brooklyn Scandal [Henry Ward Beecher, Miss Tilton affair]; Remarkable Prophecies of Holy Scripture Concerning the Jews; Hunting for Huguenots by Nellie Elliott; The Conspiracy against Mr. Beecher; John Chinaman in San Francisco; Coney Island; Or, Our American Brighton [illustrated]; The Sunday School Convention at Chautauqua Lake [Illustrated]; The Venerable Mayhew Family; A New Recruit for Charles Darwin; Teaching the Deaf to Speak [sign language - illustrated]; Mr. Moody's Farewell to Scotland; An Unusual Engraving, "Pig-Catching in Kentucky" with an accompanying article [p. 497]; Another Full Page Temperance Illustration [p. 517]; Consecration of the Native American / Indian Church at White-Earth by Bishop Whipple; Another Kentucky Engraving "Election Day" [p.557]; The Great Irish Revival [D. L. Moody]; A Mormon Woman's Experience and Views on Mormonism; Indian Reservations; Map of Indian Reservations [p.596 - Full Page];  etc. etc. 

12 x 16.5 inches. Half leather. Split to top of spine, rubbed. Some toning here and there, a few corners, turned, a few tears with no losses. One issue appears to have been damp at some point and is stained, though still very legible and with no structural damage.