The Illustrated Times Weekly Newspaper

The publisher was the Fleet Street bookseller David Bogue and the editor was Henry Vizetelly.

Believing that success was imminent, he conceived of the idea of bringing out a cheap popular illustrated paper to compete with the near monopoly of Herbert Ingram's Illustrated London News with himself as editor.

[1] The absence of the tax stamp allowed the new paper to be published at the low price of twopence and it became a rapid success.

The office was at 2 Catherine Street, Strand, on a site subsequently covered by the Gaiety Theatre and Restaurant.

Palmer, Kenny Meadows, Harrison Weir, G. Cruikshank, Myles Birket Foster, Charles Henry Bennett, and W.