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Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 17-32 with Supplement engravings "The General Election"; previously disbound from bound volume; narrow waterstain along upper edges (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 United States - The Future President; Loss of the 'Duchess of Kent' Steamer (with engraving Collision Between the 'Duchess of Kent' and the 'Ravensbourne' Steamers, Off Northfleet Point); Banquet of the Legislative Body, at Paris (with engraving); Netherlands Land Inclosure Company (with engraving); Fire on Board the 'Indus' Steam-Ship (with engraving); The 'King of Nuggets,' The Largest Specimen of Pure Gold Found in Australia (with engraving); Newmarket July Meeting (with engraving Lord John Scott's 'The Reiver,' Winner of 'The July Stakes,' at Newmarket, 1852); The Elections (with double-page spread with six engravings entitled The General Election: Westminster, Finsbury, Tower Hamlets, Southwark, Lambeth, and Greenwich); The Elections in Ireland; Edinburgh Chess Club; two-page The Riot at Stockport (with eight engravings, including The Roman Catholic Chapel of Saints Philip and James, Edgeley, and Prisoners Brought Into Court). Seller Inventory # 006805
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