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Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 137-156 plus four-pages of advertisements, unpaginated; previously disbound from bound volume; light narrow waterstain along upper edges and fore-edges of each page (to blank margins only and not affecting pagination); pages age-browned. 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 New Reform Bill; Sketches in Turkey - A Turkish School for Teaching the Koran, and A Turkish Coffee-House (both entries with front cover engravings); lengthy update The War; short Departure of Baron Brunnow From London (with engraving); short Departure of M. De Kisseleff From Paris (with engraving); short Alexandria - The 'Himalaya' Steam-Ship (with engraving); short Iron House Building (with engraving); short The Battle of Citate (with full-page engraving); Going to the War (with two engravings - The Coldstream Guards Leaving St. George's Barracks, on Tuesday; and, The Grenadier Guards Leaving the Tower, on Tuesday Last); The Army - From Our Military Correspondent; short The Esquimaux Family (with engraving); short Accident to the Calais Steam-Ship 'Menai' (with engraving); The Catholic & Apostolic Church, Gordon-Square (with engraving); The Metropolitan Convalescent Hospital (with engraving); Loss of the 'Olinda'; John Bowring, Esq., LL.D., Governor of Hong-Kong (with portrait engraving); Hong-Kong (with half-page engraving Hong-Kong, From the Harbour); The War on the Danube - From Our Special Correspondent; Louis Napoleon's Letter to Nicholas. Seller Inventory # 007422
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