The first issue, 12 October 1861, announced itself confidently under the
masthead "PENNY ILLUSTRATED PAPER: With All the News of the Week": "A new era opens upon the people. In producing a paper for the million, let us plainly say, we want be esteemed the friend of the people ... A new era is opened to us by the Repeal of the Paper Duties". The paper was apparently initially the charge of
Ebenezer Farrington, A well-known work by
Harry B. Neilson, ''Mr Fox's Hunt Breakfast on Xmas Day
, was created for issuing as a chromolithograph with the Christmas edition of the Penny Illustrated Paper'' in December 1897. The weekly newspaper ceased publication in 1913. ==References==