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Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 153-168; previously disbound from bound volume; stated "With Music Supplement" not issued with this number. With numerous, and splendid engravings, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article The Militia, and The National Defences; The Destruction of Lagos, on the Coast of Africa by the British Squadron (with two engravings); Spain - Burning of the Body of [Martin] Merino (with three engravings: Execution of Merino, Outside the Gate Toledo, at Madrid; Albacete Poignard, With Which Merino Attempted to Assassinate The Queen of Spain; The Burning of the Body of Merino Outside the Gate of Bilboa, at Madrid); Costume of the French Senators and Councillors of State (with engraving); Commencement of the Quebec and Richmond Railway (with engraving); Grand Ball Given by the Kandian Chiefs to His Excellency the Governor (in Kandy, Ceylon, with engraving); The Aberdeen Clipper-Built Barque 'Phoenician' (with engraving); Sir Charles Barry, R.A. (with engraving); The Museum of Practical Geology (with engraving); The British Institution (with two engravings); Miss Crichton (with engraving); London Temperance League (with engraving London Temperance League: Great Juvenile Gathering of Bands of Hope, Etc., in Exeter Hall, on Monday). Seller Inventory # 006785
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Illustrated London News (Single Complete...
Publisher: William Little, London, England
Publication Date: 1852
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
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