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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 323452, member: 56&quot;]It was a weekly summary of St James&#039;s Gazette.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_James%27s_Gazette" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_James%27s_Gazette" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_James's_Gazette</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The ad says &quot;2 Magnificent Coloured Plates&quot;, and it was the Christmas issue, so I think, yes, the number of prints was limited to the run of the supplement... available &quot;at all Newsagents and at the Railway Bookstalls&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>How many that would be, I don&#039;t know.&nbsp; It was apparently a literary publication with not an overly large circulation.&nbsp; A special Christmas number with extra special illustrations might have been expected to sell more than usual.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Victorian illustrated papers could be fairly extravagant in the images they published.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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