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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 381-404 including Supplement; previously disbound from bound volume; rear page corner tear clear-tape repaired; light foxing throughout. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and primary news items, lengthy regular columns, all containing detailed reportage of London, local, domestic, colonial, and foreign news and events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music. Highlights of this issue include: lead article The Patriotic Fund; The Field of Battle (Alma, with front cover engraving "After the Battle"); lengthy regular news column Foreign and Colonial News (topics include France; Australia; The Siege of Sebastopol; Orders to the Army Before Commencing Siege Operations; Telegraphic Despatches; Prince Menschikoff's Despatches; The Baltic Fleet; Expedition Against the Russians at Sitka; The War in Asia; America; India and China); The Vintage in France - Bordeaux and the Claret Districts (with six engravings); The Charge Up the Heights of Alma (with double-page fold-out engraving "The British Troops on the Heights of Alma - Grand Charge of the Guards"); poem "Alma" by Mrs. T.K. Hervey; lengthy The Battle of the Alma - Official List of Killed and Wounded - From a Supplement to last Tuesday's 'Gazette'; Lieut. Montagu O'Reilly's Private Audience With the Sultan (with engraving); Recent Ascent of Monte Rosa - By a Correspondent (with engraving); short New Church at Aberdare (with small engraving); short Gannet, Shot in Lincolnshire (with engraving); The Wreck of 'The Artic' (with engraving); lengthy Her Majesty's Visit to Hull and Grimsby (with topics Arrival of the Royal Party at Hull; The Illumination; The Scene at the Railway Hotel; The Embarkation at the Pier; The Reception at Grimsby; The Visit to Grimsby Docks; The Journey Home - with seven engravings, including full-page "Her Majesty's Visit to Hull - The Procession in the Market-Place" and partial-page "Presentation of Addresses to Her Majesty, at the Station Hotel, Hull").

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Overview and condition: two complete issue Nos. 589 and 590 containing pages 393-424; previously disbound from bound volume; narrow waterstain along upper edges (to blank margins only); light foxing in places; a few small spots to left edge of front cover (to blank margin only). With numerous, and splendid engravings, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article Wellington's Work: Has It Been Neutralised by the Revival of Bonapartism?; Foreign and Colonial News - France (with front cover engraving Re-Establishment of the French Empire - Sitting of the Senate); Funeral of the Duke of Wellington (with subheadings Removal of the Body to London and The Lying in State); The Search for John Franklin; The Submarine Electric Telegraph (with engraving of the Instrument-Room); The New Patent Law (with engraving Dinner at Dee's Hotel, Birmingham, to Celebrate the Passing of the Patent Law Amendment Act); Storm Off the Northumberland Coast (with engraving); The Earthquake in the North; The Subterranean Telegraph; Opening of Parliament (with the full text of The Queen's Speech); full-page engraving Opening of the New Parliament - Arrival of Her Majesty at the Victoria Tower, House of Lords; full-page engraving The Victoria Gallery, House of Lords; The Movers and Seconders of the Address; two-page musical score "Wellington's Funeral March" composed by Sir Henry R. Bishop; Daniel Webster, Secretary of State of the United States of America (with portrait engraving of The Late Daniel Webster); Abd-El-Kader at Versailles (with engraving); Wellington Supplement to the Illustrated London News including: poem Midnight Watch at Walmer Castle (with engraving); The Duke of Wellington as an Orator; The Duke of Wellington as a Diplomatist; engraving Bust of the Duke of Wellington; St. Paul's - The Crypt - The Great Bell (with two engravings); engraving of the Wellington Candelabra; "The Duke" at the Horse Guards (with two engravings); The Duke in His Private and Social Capacity; Statues and Portraits, and Memorials of Wellington (with engraving The Late Duke of Wellington, From an Original Portrait Painted by Salter); exceptional full-page engraving Last Moments of the Duke of Wellington; Solemn Interment of George Monk, Duke of Albemarle (with engravings Part of the Funeral Procession of General Monk, Duke of Albemarle, in 1670 and The Body of Monk Lying in State in Westminster Abbey); Grand State Funeral of Lord Nelson (with engravings Funeral of Admiral Lord Nelson in 1806); Heroes Buried in St. Paul's Cathedral; The Princely Obsequies of Sir Philip Sidney (with engraving Part of the Funeral Procession of Sir Philip Sidney - The Body).

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete double issue number containing pages 637-684 including two Supplements; previously disbound from bound volume; light narrow waterstain along upper edges of most pages (to blank margins only and not affecting pagination); double-page fold-out engraving detached but present and is split down the middle; narrow staining along folds (to blank margins only). Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and primary news items, lengthy regular columns, all containing detailed reportage of London, local, domestic, colonial, and foreign news and events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music. Highlights of this issue include: lead article The Foreign Soldiers Bill; Return of the Baltic Fleet (with front cover engraving "Weather in the Baltic - Bows of H.M. Corvette 'Cruiser"); news updates The War in the Crimea (with subheadings Hostile Symptoms in the Principalities; The American President's Message); Mr. Bright and His Constituents; Reminiscences of the War on the Danube (continued from the previous issue); The Late Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, G.C.H. (with portrait engraving); short Freetown, Sierra Leone (with engraving "Departure of the Ex-Governor from Freetown, Sierra Leone"); short Wrecks of the "Melbourne" (Steamer) and the "Caduceus" (with engraving); Captain William Hutcheson Hall, R.N. (with portrait engraving and engraving "Russian Pony and Sheep Brought From Bomarsund, By Captain Hall"); Toys Made by Russian Prisoners of War, Exhibited in the German Fair (with engraving); The National Gallery - New Pictures (with two engravings of art works "The Coronation of the Virgin" and "The Adoration of the Shepherds"); The Christmas-Tree at the Crystal Palace (with large, splendid engraving); Austria and the Western Powers; Notes on Siege Operations and Field Fortifications (continued from the previous issue); Clouded Tigers, at the Zoological Society's Gardens, Regent's Park (with engraving); Westminster Play (with engraving "The Westminster Play - Scene from Terence's 'Eunuchus,' Act 1, Scene 1"); The Birmingham Grand Military Trophy, and Concerts of Sacred Music, for the Benefit of the Patriotic Fund (with engraving); Winter Dress for the Troops in the Crimea (with engraving); The Birmingham Poultry Show (with full page engraving); Christmas Supplement to the Illustrated London News, 1855 [1854] including short story The Cook's Story, or, How the Plum Pudding Was Made (with engraving); short poems Charade No. I (which begins "My first is found wherever MAN is found, On earth, in air, or water - underground") and Charade No II; one-act play A Pleasant Hour; poem The First Christmas Morning by Cuthbert Bede; Paul Gerretz Rembrandt, Commonly Called Rembrandt Van Ryn, or Rhyn (with engraving of his art work "Jacob's Dream"); engraving "Bringing Home the Yule Log"; engraving "The Christmas Dole"; short story Richard Brading, A Story of a Man Who Kept a Promise, by Shirley Brooks (with illustration); full-page engraving "Charles the Second Knighting the Lion of Beef" Drawn by Gilbert; engraving "Cutting the Ashen Fagots; Devonshire"; engraving "Christmas Trees in Covent Garden Market"; Christmas Cheer and Cheeriness, by Cuthbert Bede; short story Christmas Day Among the Bricks; The Mistletoe-Seller by Angus B. Reach (with engraving); lengthy poem Christmas, by Shirley Brooks; engraving "The Christmas Guest" (of a small bird on a sill); engraving "Christmas Eve in Britany"; engraving "The Star in the East - The First Christmas Morning"; Sparks From Our Christmas Log, by J. Stirling Coyne; Acting Charades ("A Christmas Evening without a good frolicking game of Acting Charades is simply a Christmas evening lost! gone!! thrown away!!!"); Captain ("A Charade in Three Acts"); engraving "A Child's Dream of Twelfth Night" Drawn by Charles Keene; humorous engraving "Very Fond of It" Drawn by John Leech (a rider on a snowy day.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete double issue (Issue Nos. 692 and 693) containing pages 25-56; previously disbound from bound volume; pages lightly aged and lightly worn; light foxing throughout. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and primary news items, lengthy regular columns, all containing detailed reportage of London, local, domestic, colonial, and foreign news and events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music. Highlights of this issue include: lead article The Military Revolt in Spain; short Military Fete at Athens (with front-cover engraving); lengthy news updates on The War (including topics The Czar's Reply to Austria; Embarkation of French Troops for the Baltic; An Effective Blockade of Cronstadt; The Russian Flotilla on the Danube; The Action Off Sebastopol; Plan of the Fortifications of Silistria - with engraving); The Educational Exhibition at St. Martin's Hall (with engraving); Society of Arts - The Dinner at the Crystal Palace (with engraving); The Archaeological Institute, at Cambridge (with two engravings "New Alabaster Screen, in Ely Cathedral" and "Professor Willis Lecturing in the Senate-House, Cambridge"); short Rumoured Meeting of the Queen and the Emperor of the French in the Downs; regular column Notes of the Week (including topics Criminal Reformation; Fatal Parachute Descent; Justice's Justice in the City); The Allied Fleets Off Cronstadt (with engraving "Reconnoitring at Cronstadt"); Christiansund (with two engravings "Entrance to Christiansund - Russians Running for Refuge" and "Christiansund"); short Embarkation of Cattle at Trieste (with full-page engraving); three-paragraph The Paddle-Wheel v. The Screw-Propeller; short The Hood Memorial (with engraving); The Harveian Oration, at the Royal College of Physicians (with engraving); Departure of the Scots Greys for the Seat of War (with engraving); short Ceremony of Blessing the Sea at Ostend (with engraving); The War on the Danube - From our Special Correspondent; Camp Life at Varna (with engraving "Interior of an Officer's Tent, at Varna"); lengthy Fortification and Siege Operations - A Few Notes - Historical and Descriptive for General Readers (with eight figures); The Allied Troops in Turkey - From our Special Correspondent (with three engravings: "H.B.M. Foot Guards Encamped at Scutari"; "British Infantry of the Line Encamped at Scutari"; full-page "Review of the Division Under Prince Napoleon Before the Sultan, at Scutari"); Notes on the Diseases of Turkey, In Reference to European Troops, and Memoir on the Remittent Fever of the Levant; The Bombardment of Odessa by the English and French Steam Squadron (with two engravings); lengthy poems "Sveaborg," "Sven Dufva" and "Ensign Stal's Fair-Day Reminiscences" (Translated from the Swedish of J.L. Runeberg); one-page musical score "England and France" with poetry by Charles Mackay and Music by Mrs. Joseph Kirkman; short Odessa (with two engravings); short Anglo-French Commemorative Medal (with two small engravings); Persian Soldiers in the Russian Service (with engraving); short The Dardanelles (with engraving "Interior of the Fort of Chanak-Kalesi, on the Asiatic Side of the Dardanelles"); short Progress of Russian Encroachment (with historical numbers); Army School Regulations - From a Military Correspondent; Cronstadt (with rear cover full-page engraving "Cronstadt, From the Narrow Part of the Channel Nearest St. Petersburg").

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete double issue number containing pages 597-636 including two Supplements; previously disbound from bound volume; double-page fold-out engraving detached but present and shows a few short closed edge tears to right edge; pages lightly aged. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and primary news items, lengthy regular columns, all containing detailed reportage of London, local, domestic, colonial, and foreign news and events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music. Highlights of this issue include: lead article The War Debates; Omer Pacha in the Crimea (with front-cover engraving); Foreign and Colonial News (including America, India and China, The War in the Crimea); Birmingham and Midland Counties Fat Cattle and Poultry Exhibition; "The Trial of the Pyx" (with engraving); The Steam-Ship "Europa" (with engraving); Steam-Engines and Trashing-Machines at The Smithfield Club Cattle Show (with engraving); Reigate National Schools (with engraving); Battle of Inkerman - The Final Effort of the Russians (with double-page fold-out engraving "The Battle of Inkerman - Final Effort of the Russians, and Joint Charge of the French and English Troops"); Incidents of the Storm in the Crimea; Notes on Siege Operations and Field Fortification (with several small drawings); Reminiscences of the War on the Danube - From a Correspondent; Festivities at Hawkstone (with subheadings The Ball, The Grotto, The Red Castle; with six engravings: "The Hon. Rowland Clegg Hill"; "Hawkstone House, The Seat of Viscount Hill"; "Entrance to Hawkstone Park"; "The Red Castle"; "Ball at Hawkstone, To Commemorate the Majority of the Hon. Rowland Clegg Hill"; and "The Grotto"); Loss of the Steam-Ship "Prince" (with engraving); The Wreck of the Steamer "Nile" (with engraving); Issue No. 718 and Supplement entitled "MEETING OF PARLIAMENT" with lead article "Opening of Parliament" (subheadings include The Royal Speech; The Debate; House of Commons); The New Houses of Parliament (with several drawings and engravings, including "Escape of Mary Queen of Scots From Lochleven - Bronze Bas-Relief, By Treed, in the Prince's Chamber"; "Members' Staircase, House of Commons"; splendid front-cover engraving "Entrance to the Star-Chamber Court, New Palace-Yard"); Parliamentary Portraits (with engravings of The Duke of Leeds; Mr. H.A. Herbert, M.P.; The Hon. E.F. Leveson-Gower, M.P.); Spahis at the French Battery (with engraving); Balaclava (with engraving "Balaclava, The Scene of the Successful Cavalry Charge"); The Siege of Sebastopol - From our Special Correspondent; The Storm in the Crimea - From our Special Correspondent (with two engravings, each entitled "Storm in Balaclava Bay" and one subheaded "Capt. Frain saving the sole survivor from the 'Wild Wave'"); The Sandbag Battery; The Attack on Petropaulovski (with "Plan of Petropaulovski"); lengthy War Obituary; Ensign James Hulton Clutterbuck (with engraving); Sewing By Steam (with engraving); Brigadier-General William Burton Tylden, Commanding Engineer (with portrait engraving); The Hospitals at Scutari (with engraving); French Ambulances (with engraving); The Bane and the Antidote - Mr. Bright on the War; and Mr. Absolom Watkin on Mr. Bright ("We have not hitherto been able to make room for Mr. Bright's mischievous letter, on behalf of his friend the Czar; but we now produce it, with Mr. Watkin's reply, so that our readers may have the bane and antidote both before them"); full-page engraving "Sandbag Battery Defended by the Guards - Sketched on the Morning After the Battle of Inkerman"; His Imperial Majesty Napoleon III (with full-page engraving); extensive Lists of Killed and Wounded; two-page musical score "The Heroes of the Crimea" (The Poetry of Charles Mackay; The Music by Frank Mori).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Overview and condition: two complete issue Nos. 574 and 575 containing pages 121-152; previously disbound from bound volume; narrow waterstain along upper edges (to blank margins only); light foxing in places; else Near Fine. With numerous, and splendid engravings, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article Emigration and the Gold Fever ("The most popular word of the present day is 'Nuggets'"); Sketches from the Turon Gold Fields, New South Wales (with ten engravings); poem Peter Brown's Reasons for Not Going to the Diggings (which begins: "No more of Australia! my arms are too old; And my back is too stiff to go digging for gold"); Pentonville Prison; Her Majesty's Visit to Belgium (with six engravings, including front cover); The 'Challenger' Life-Boat (with three drawings and engraving Richardson's Patent Tubular Life-Boat); The Blue Flag on Cross Fell [Cumberland] (with engraving); Sketches in Burmah (with three engravings); The Season of 1852 at Her Majesty's Theatre; Government by Shows - The Paris Fetes (with six engravings); The Late and the Present Napoleon; Paris, Its Workshops and Work-People; The Naval Combat on the Seine; The Passage of the Mont St. Bernard; The President's Soiree at St. Cloud; The Grand Ball in the Marche des Innocens; full-page engraving Colossal Statue of Napoleon, in the Champs Elysees; full-page engraving The Grand Ball at the Marche des Innocens; The Great Exhibition of 1851 - Reports of the Juries, Printed for the Royal Commission, 1852; The Kaffir War (with four engravings); Extraordinary Meteor (with two drawings); The New Crystal Palace at Sydenham (with engraving and ground-plan).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Overview and condition: two complete issue Nos. 579 and 580 containing pages 209-240, with lead article from No. 580 "Death of the Duke of Wellington" [Arthur Wellesley] and "Memoir of The Life and Military Services of The Duke of Wellington"; previously disbound from bound volume; narrow waterstain along upper edges (to blank margins only); light waterstains along left edge of front cover (to blank margin only); pages lightly age-toned; light foxing in places. With numerous, and splendid engravings, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: Hereford Musical Festival (with front cover engraving The Grand Musical Festival in Hereford Cathedral); Sicily - The Eruption of Mount Etna (with three engravings); The North American Fisheries; The Koh-I-Noor [Diamond] (with three drawings); Coorg Harvest Festival (with engraving); Statue to [Robert] Peel at Bury (with engraving); The Late Duke of Wellington; Treaty of Commerce Between France and England; Destructive Storm in Worcestershire (with four engravings headlined "The Inundation in Worcestershire"); Launch of H.M.S. Windsor Castle, 140 Guns (with engraving and figure-head); Arrival of the Swedish Yacht 'Sverige' at Cowes; The Braemar Gatherings; National Education - Instruction in Drawing; The British Association at Belfast - Excursion to the Giant's Causeway; Majority of the Earl of Dalkeith - Celebration at Sanquhar (with engraving); Opening of the Morayshire Railway (with engraving); Sevres and Other Porcelains at the Exhibition of Art Manufactures (with engraving); "In the Clouds;" or, Some Account of a Balloon Trip with Mr. Green by Henry Mayhew (with engraving); Supplement to the London News (Issue No. 580), black-bordered and entirely devoted to the "Life of the Duke of Wellington" (with entries Death of the Duke of Wellington; Memoir of The Life and Military Services of The Duke of Wellington, with several engravings, and sections including Partition of the Conquered District - Command in the Mysore; Dhoondiah Waugh; Appointment at Trincomalee; Invasion of the Mahratta Country; Battle of Assaye; Lake's Victories; Battle of Argaum; Return to England - Marriage; Chief Secretaryship in Ireland; Expedition to Denmark; Resumption of the Irish Secretaryship; Expedition to Portugal - Battle of Roliea; Battle of Vimiera; Return to England; Second Appearance and Command in the Peninsula; Passage of the Douro; Battle of Talavera; The Lines of Torres Vedras; Battles of Busaco and Barossa; Fuentes D'Onoro; Siege of Badajoz; Ciudad Rodrigo; Battle of Salamanca; Battle of Vittoria; Battles of the Pyrenees - Siege of St. Sebastian - The Bidassoa; Nivelle - Orthez; Battle of Toulouse; Return to England; Congress of Vienna; Campaign in the Netherlands; Battle of Waterloo; Civil and Political Career; The Duke of Wellington in the House of Lords; full-page table Precis of the Commissions, Services, Official Commands, and Public Honours of Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington; Strathfieldsay; Walmer Castle).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Overview and condition: two complete issue Nos. 581 and 582 containing pages 241-272, with lead article from No. 581 "The Duke's Funeral" [Arthur Wellesley] and No. 582 Wellington Supplement "Wellington's Place in the World" this latter issue black-bordered; previously disbound from bound volume; narrow waterstain along upper edges (to blank margins only); light foxing in places; else Near Fine. With numerous, and splendid engravings, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: The Duke's Funeral; Portrait of the Late Countess of Mornington, Mother of the Duke of Wellington (with front cover engraving); Foreign and Colonial News, including Australia - The Gold Fields, Editorial Perils in California, American Emigrant Ships - Frightful Tragedy; The Late Duke of Wellington; Respect to the Memory of the Duke in the Provinces; French Titles of the Duke of Wellington; Burning of the Ship 'Thomas Thompson' (with engraving); Opening of a New Basin in the Arsenal of Naples (with engraving); Harvest at the Philanthropic Society's Farm, Red Hill (with engraving); Westwood Park (with engraving); France - The President's Tour to the South (with engraving); Inundation in France (with engraving The Village of Boucharge Inundated by the Rhone); Exhibition of Poultry at Great Yarmouth (with two engravings); Teignmouth Made an Independent Port (with engraving); Opening of the South Wales Railway Between Carmarthen and Llanelly (with two engravings); 'Stockwell,' The Winner of the St. Leger (with engraving); Wellington Supplement, each page black-bordered, and with numerous engravings, entitled "Wellington's Place in the World" (with sections: lengthy The Duke of Wellington, As Politician and Civilian; The Real Birth-Place of the Duke; Castlecarbury; The Wellington Chair; Bust of the Duke of Wellington, by Mr. Noble; Wellingtoniana; The Duke on Horseback; Walmer Castle; A French Writer's Estimate of the Duke's Character; The "Duke" as a Musical Amateur; Royal Descent (with ancestor tree starting with Edward I); Wellington's Battles at One View (table); double-page musical score "Mourn for the Mighty Dead" composed by Sir H. R. Bishop and poetry by Charles Mackay; Street Reminiscence of the Duke; The Duke's Horse at Walmer; Bust of the Duke, and Tenure-Flag, in Windsor Castle.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Overview and condition: two complete issues Nos. 596 and 597 containing pages 505-536; previously disbound from bound volume; light, narrow waterstain along upper edges of Issue No. 596 (to blank margins only); a few short closed edge tears along right edge of fold-out plate as well as periodic small chips to upper edge (all to blank margins only) ; else Near Fine. With numerous, and splendid engravings, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article The Budget; The Search for Sir John Franklin (with four engravings); Sir Edward Belcher's Artic Expedition; The Large Print of the Funeral of the Late Duke of Wellington in St. Paul's Cathedral; Smithfield Club Cattle Show (with three engravings of Smithfield Club Prize Cattle); The Empire in France - The Deputation of the Legislative Corps at St. Cloud, Proclamation at the Hotel de Ville, Entry of the Emperor into Paris (with three engravings); Reaping Machinery (with several figures); Presents from Mexico to Her Majesty and the Prince of Wales (with three engravings); Floods at Salisbury (with engraving); Parliamentary Portraits (Mr. George Alexander Hamilton for Dublin University, with portrait engraving); Beaumont Institution (with engraving Lecture on the Duke of Wellington and His Times, at the Beaumont Institution, Mile-End); lead article for Issue No. 597 entitled The Duke of Wellington as Administrator of the Army; engraving Funeral of the Late Duke of Wellington - The Procession in Pall-Mall; The Duke of Wellington as an Agriculturist and Landlord; Dr. Cumming's Lecture on the Career and Character of the Duke of Wellington; The Great Duke Receiving the Thanks of Parliament; splendid full-page engraving The Late Duke of Wellington at the Bar of the House of Commons, Addressed by the Speaker; splendid full-page engraving Temple-Bar, on the Night Before the Funeral of the Duke of Wellington; Wellington Tributes; magnificent double-page fold-out engraving Funeral of the Late Duke of Wellington - Arrival of the Car at St. Paul's Cathedral; Oliver Cromwell's State Funeral (with engraving Cromwell Lying in State); engraving The Hero and His Horse on the Field of Waterloo, Twenty Years After the Battle from painting by B. R. Haydon; Batons of the Late Duke of Wellington (with engraving); Miniature of the Duke of Wellington by Isabey (with engraving); Portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Pellegrini (with engraving); The Duke's Birth and School-Days (with two engravings: Room in Dangan Castle, and First School of the Late Duke of Wellington, at Trim); The Crypt of St. Paul's. Lowering the Body of the Duke of Wellington (with engraving); An After-Dinner Speech of the Duke; The Model-Room, at St. Paul's Cathedral (with engraving); The Duke's Birthplace.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete double issue containing pages 249-284 including Supplements, plus unpaginated double-page full-colour engraving laid in (dated March 13, 1858 and entitled Grand Entry of the Prince and Princess Frederick William Into Berlin); previously disbound from bound volume; pages lightly age-browned, periodic light age spots and light soil, overall in very nice condition. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and primary news items, lengthy regular columns, all containing detailed reportage of London, local, domestic, colonial, and foreign news and events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, sports, art, theatre, and music. Notable articles and entries include Our Foreign Relations; The New Ministry (with individual biographies); Presents to the Prince and Princess Frederick William; lengthy regular column Foreign and Colonial News; The War in China - The Attack on Canton; Transatlantic Sketches - The Spanish Race in America (No. II); Out-Door Amusements, March; The Great Solar Eclipse; special Supplement entitled Bridal Tour of the Princess-Royal In Prussia (with numerous subheadings); full-page musical score Two Rivers (Words by A. Marschan, Music by Franz Keiser); Exhibition of the British Institution; Matrimonial Alliances of British Princesses (a lengthy history); The Royal Festivities in Berlin; History of the House of Brandenburg; Some Curiosities of Prussian Court History. With numerous engravings, including front cover portrait engraving of The New Premier, The Right Hon. The Earl of Derby; full-page engraving The Royal Wedding - The Bridal Procession in Buckingham Palace; three large engravings accompanying the article The War in China - The Attack on Canton; five engravings entitled The New Ministry (with portrait engravings of Lord Stanley, Sir F. Kelly, Sir F. Thesiger, Earl Malmesbury, and Sir J. Pakington); eight Figures accompanying the article The Great Solar Eclipse; front cover Supplement entitled Bridal Tour of the Princess-Royal In Prussia in full-colour with full-colour engraving entitled Arrival of the Prince and Princess Frederick William, at Antwerp; splendid full-colour double-page engraving laid in and entitled Grand Entry of the Prince and Princess Frederick William Into Berlin; engravings Disappointment and Hope (drawn from art works); lovely full-page engraving of art work entitled The Hay Harvest; double-page engraving The Royal Wedding Festivities in Berlin - Grand Reception in the Hall of Knights; two full-page engravings of art works, the first The Campbells Are Coming and the second Asses Drinking; full-page engraving to rear cover entitled The Royal Wedding Festivities - The Procession of the Trades Passing the Palace, Berlin.