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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: 12
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[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...] [$]
![[picture: Tales of Perrault: Little Thumb]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/wm/big/048-boy-riverside-q75-157x200.jpg "[picture: Tales of Perrault: Little Thumb]")
Tales of Perrault: Little Thumb
Little Thumb got up very early and went to the edge of a stream; he filled his pockets with little white pebbles. [more...] [$]
![[picture: A Boy]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/wm/big/049-barefoot-boy-q75-134x200.jpg "[picture: A Boy]")
![[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...] [$]
![[picture: September]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/wm/big/093-september-q75-154x200.jpg "[picture: September]")
This full-page illustration shows, in the middle but at some distance, two women picking grapes, surrounded by a circular grapevine and a large Grecian urn. Above them are birds on the wing. In the foreground a barefoot youth, perhaps an older teen or a young man, is offering a bunch of grapes to a smaller child, also barefoot and facing away from us. [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Hop-o-My-Thumb: The miniature children arrived at the house]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/wm/big/152-goblins-at-the-door-q75-160x200.jpg "[picture: Hop-o-My-Thumb: The miniature children arrived at the house]")
Hop-o-My-Thumb: The miniature children arrived at the house
Cuentos de Perrault.—caga-chitas: Llegaron á una casa de donde la luz salia, Hamaron á la puerta, y una buena mujer que vino á abrirles... [more...] [$]
![[picture: Little people at the door---wallpaper]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/wm/big/152-goblins-at-the-door-wallpaper-q85-320x200.jpg "[picture: Little people at the door---wallpaper]")
Little people at the door—wallpaper
This is a detail from little people at the door to the house in the forest, showing the children at an old stone house in a clearing in a scary ancient forest. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Basilica St. Anthony, Padua]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/wm/big/232-basilica-saint-anthony-padua-q75-143x200.jpg "[picture: Basilica St. Anthony, Padua]")
The early fourteenth-century cathedral of Saint Anthony in Padua, drawn I think form the South-East. [$]
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![[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]")
