1840 Royal Wedding. Original souvenir edition of the Sun of February 10th, 1840

Original edition of The Sun newspaper No.14,795 London, Monday, February, 10, 1840. The large format paper measures 35½ x 19 ins page size and is a single large sheet of paper folded to give four printed pages. Beneath the roundel portraits under the headline May God Preserve Victoria & Albert is a genealogical table of the Saxe Coburg Family and short biographies of the pair. The verso of that part of the paper is left blank. The rest of the paper includes details of the day’s events with advertisements and notices on the rear page. It bears the red newspaper one penny tax stamp top right. There is some additional creasing along the central horizontal fold and minor chips and curls around the edges but it is in quite good condition for a newspaper over 180 years old. Modern newsprint would not survive this long.   nov11/1