Herbert Ingram Publisher , Charles Mackay Editor , William Little Printer , and the Illustrated London News (85 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 525-548 including Supplement; previously disbound from bound volume; pages age-browned; chipping along right edges of several pages affecting the end-words of text to pages 527-528 (otherwise to blank margins only); double-page fold-out engraving detached but present; several pages loose but present. 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 Duties of the Allies to Themselves and to Europe; The Cannon Revolver (with front cover engraving); The Battle of Inkerman - From our Special Correspondent; General Canrobert's Account of the Battle; Prince Menschikoff's Account of the Battle; Captain Lewis Edward Nolan, Late of the 15th Hussars (with engraving); Charge of the Chasseurs D'Afrique (with engraving); The Battle of Inkerman - Official Despatches, Lord Raglan's Despatch (with two engravings "The Allied Troops Preparing to Silence Inkerman" and "Vale Leading to Inkerman"); lengthy editorial commentary "The Battle of Inkerman"; Latest Intelligence; The Charge of the Scots Greys (with full-page engraving "The Action at Balaclava - Charge of the Scots Greys, October 25"); full-page engraving "Sortie of the Russians From Sebastopol, October 26"; Naval Attack on the Russian Fort of Petropaulovski (with engraving); Incidents at the Battle of Inkerman (topics include The Night Before the Battle; Our Pickets Fall Back; Hand-to-Hand Fighting - British Pluck; How Bravely the Guards Fought); Inauguration of the Statue of Charles XIV, at Stockholm (with engraving); short Statue of the Poet Wordsworth (with engraving); Restoration of St. Nicholas Church, Islip, Northamptonshire (with small engraving); Denshanger New Church (with small engraving); Ball at the Guildhall, in Aid of the Patriotic Fund (with engraving); General Canrobert (with portrait engraving); Lieut-General Sir John Fox Burgoyne, G.C.B. (with portrait engraving); engraving "Sortie of the Russians from Sebastopol"; Eupatoria - From a Correspondent (with five engravings); Despatches From Lord Raglan; Obituary of Officers in the Crimea; The Attack of the Scots Greys (with double-page fold-out engraving "The Battle of Balaclava - Attack of the Scots Greys").

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 65-84 plus four-page unpaginated advertising supplement; 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); 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 Meeting of Parliament; column Foreign and Colonial News (including updates on The Fleets in the Black Sea and The War on the Danube); The Hospodars of Moldavia and Wallachia (with portrait engravings of Prince Stirbry and Prince Ghika); H.M. Steam-Frigate 'Retribution' (with engraving); Mollahs Proceeding to Council (with two engravings); Army Clothing; The Command of the Army; The Suppressed Pamphlet (regarding "Lord Palmerston, What Has He Done?"); short Her Majesty's Skates (with drawing); Sketches From Kalafat and Widdin - The War on the Danube (with several engravings, including front cover); The London Reformatory Institution, Great Smith-Street, Westminster (with four engravings); Paris Fashions for February (with engravings); The King of Portugal (with portrait engraving of Dom Pedro V); short Ballooning at Bombay (with engraving); short The Flood at Doncaster (with engraving); The Late Remarkable Weather; Wreck of the 'Tayleur,' in Dublin Bay (with two engravings).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 77-100 including Supplement; previously disbound from bound volume; pages age-browned; 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 War Debate in Both Houses; Dervishes of Constantinople (with front cover engraving); lengthy regular column Foreign and Colonial News (topics include France; The Overland Mail; The Insurrection in Madrid; others); lengthy news updates on The War (topics include Sir Charles Napier's Operations; The Czar's Answer to Austria; The Battle of Kama - Defeat of the Russians; Naval Operations on the Danube; The Russian Fleet in the Indian Seas; others); The Royal Agricultural Society at Lincoln - The Live-Stock Prizes (with full-page engraving of Prize Cattle); North Devon Railway (with four engravings); four engravings of art works featured at The Royal Academy and The New Society of Painters in Water-Colours; Extramural Cemetary for St. Pancras and Islington (with engraving); short Holy Trinity National Schools, Weymouth (with small engraving); short New Church of St. John the Evangelist, at Lowestoft (with engraving); short Memorial to Lieutenant Bellot (with drawing of Tablet); The Goodwood Race Plate (with three engravings); Paris Fashions for August (with four small engravings); three-paragraph The Census - Ages and Occupations; Embarkation of Artillery Horses at Calais (with engraving); The Ornamental Waters in the Bois de Boulogne (with engraving); short Infernal Engines in the Baltic (with drawing); The Late Captain Butler (with portrait engraving); The Siege of Silistria (with four engravings); The Feast of the Bairam (with engraving); short Russian Prisoners at Constantinople (with engraving).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 125-148 including Supplement; previously disbound from bound volume; two fold-outs, including Map of The Ottoman Empire, detached but present; 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 Close of the Session; The House of Commons' Library (with front cover engraving); lengthy regular news column Foreign and Colonial News (topics include France; Renewal of Disturbances in Spain; United States); lengthy news updates The War (topics include The Bombardment of Bomarsund; The War in Asia; The Crimea Expedition; The Retreat of the Russians - Evacuation of Moldavia; Prison Discipline); Turkish Coal-Mine on the Black Sea (with engraving); Funeral of Captain Hyde Parker (with engraving); The Female Hippopotamus in the Zoological Society's Gardens, Regent's-Park (with engraving); short The 'Cataragui' Coming Down the Galop Rapids Above Montreal, Canada (with engraving); double-page fold-out Cronstadt (with two engravings: "H.M.S. 'Driver' and Yachts 'Gondola' and 'Esmeralda,' Off Cronstadt" and "Cronstadt, and the Russian Fleet, From the Sea"); Notes of a Rambler - Railways and Refreshment-Rooms; Thames Grand National Regatta (with engraving of the Prizes); Highgate Model Yacht Club (with engraving); engraving of art work "Othello" painted by H.C. Selous; engraving of art work "The Russian Serf" painted by Joseph J. Jenkins; Baldomero Espartero, The Duke of Victory, President of the Council of the Ministry of Spain (with portrait engraving); Espartero's Entrance Into Madrid (with engraving); The Madrid Insurrection - Sacking of the Ministers' Hotels (with two engravings: "The Insurrection in Spain - Barricade in the Place San Geronimo, Near the Prado, Madrid" and "The Insurrection in Spain - The Insurgents Setting Fire to the Palace of Queen Christina, at Madrid"); short Launch of a Mission Vessel (with engraving of the "Allen Gardiner"); lengthy Turkey: Geographical, Agricultural, Commercial, and Statistical (with double-page fold-out map "Map of The Ottoman Empire, Kingdom of Greece, and The Russian Provinces on the Black Sea"); poem The Lime-Tree by Frances Bennoch.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 173-196 including Supplement; previously disbound from bound volume; 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 First Blow ("The first blow has been struck at Bomarsund"); short The Camp at Boulogne (with front cover engraving "The 5th French Regiment of the Line Passing Through the Porte des Dunes, on Their Way to the Camp of Boulogne"); lengthy regular column Foreign and Colonial News (topics include France; Spain; Preparing for the Crimea; The Allied Troops in Turkey - The Cholera; A Russian Victory in Asia; Position of the German Powers; The Austrians in Wallachia; America); lengthy regular news column Naval and Military Intelligence (including topic Trial of the New Gunboat - Extraordinary Results); The Wattled Talegalla, or Brush Turkey, at the Zoological Society's Gardens (with engraving); short Cricket-Match on the Goodwin Sands (with engraving); engraving of art-work "Giving an Order" painted by J.H. Mole; engraving of art-work "Mont Orgueil Castle, Jersey" painted by J. Wilson; Kars and Erzeroom (with two engravings); Field-Marshall Baron Von Hess (with engraving); A Quasi-Russian Prize (with engraving); The Capture of Bomarsund (with map of the Fortifications of Bomarsund and detailed Plan of the Attack on Bomarsund); short The Fire at Cubitt's Building Works (with engraving); short Billingsgate New Market (with engraving); short New Schools at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight (with small engraving); Opening of the Central Somerset Railway (with engraving); Paris Fashions for September (with engraving); St. John's Wood Barracks (with engraving); musical score "Patriot Song of the Finlanders" (The Poetry by Runeberg, The Swedish Bard, and The Music by F. Pacius); Notes of a Rambler (No. II) - Edinburgh; The Peak of Derbyshire - The Peak Castle (with engraving) - Buxton (with engraving of "The Crescent, New Baths") - The Blue John Mine (with engraving) - Haddon Hall (with engraving); Commencement of the Victor Emmanuel Railway - From a Correspondent; The War on the Danube - From our Special Correspondent (with engraving "Rustchuk - Bridge of Boats in Course of Construction"); short Discussing the War at Copenhagen (with engraving inside a coffee-house).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 197-220 including Supplement; previously disbound from bound volume; light foxing throughout; fold-out detached but present. 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 Free-Trade in France; Conflagration at Varna - From a Correspondent (with front cover engraving); lengthy regular news column Foreign and Colonial News (including topics The Surrender of Bomarsund; The Expeditionary Force at Varna; Great Alarm at Odessa; Turkish Reverse in Asia; The Austrian Occupation of Wallachia; Austrian Answer to the Russian Note; Political Demonstration at Copenhagen; The Revolution in Spain; America; others); The Lizard Serpentine Company's Signal Staff Quarry, Near Cadgwith (with engraving); Discovery of the Remains of the Alexandrian Library (with engraving); Lancaster's Oval Cannon (with five Figures); short H.M.S. 'Antelope' in the Bonny River (with engraving); Launch of a Gun-Boat (with engraving "Launch of H.M. Gun-Boat 'Pelter,' and the Portuguese Steam-Ship 'Dom Pedro Secondo,' at Northfleet"); double-page fold-out Panoramic View of Varna, and the Adjacent Coast (with three engravings including several partially-submerged wrecks); Attempted Revolution in New Granada - From our Private Correspondent; The New Uniform - From our Military Correspondent; Sketch at an Indian Railway Station (with engraving); Mr. Edward L. Davenport (with portrait engraving); Dr. Wylde, Founder of the New Philharmonic Society (with portrait engraving); Mr. John B. Gough (with portrait engraving); The King's Lynn Union Workhouse (with engraving); short Caldicott Castle (with engraving of Remains); short St. Ninian's, Perth (with engraving); Marshall O'Donnell, Count of Lucena, The Spanish Minister of War (with engraving); The Greek Courts at the Crystal Palace (with engraving); Laying the Foundation-Stone of the New Church of St. Thomas, Newport, Isle of Wight, by H.R.H. Prince Albert (with engraving); The Oldham Industrial and Educational Exhibition (with engraving); The Educational Exhibition (by The Society of Arts); lengthy A Glance at Our War on the Danube - From a Correspondent; poem A Hymn For the Harvest by William Martin; French Agriculture (with two engravings: "Ploughing in France" and "Harvest-Home Custom in France"); short Sculpture in the Pediment of the Great Western Royal Hotel (with engraving); short Model Figure [of Alice Evelyn Tupper] by J. Durham (with drawing); The Beaufoy Shakspearian Medal (with drawing of obverse and reverse); Sketches of the Manners and Customs of a Genteel Little Sea-Side Town (No. II); The General Courts-Martial at Windsor - From our Military Correspondent; Some Observations on the Origin of Chess (Chapter IV) by Dr. Duncan Forbes.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 221-244 including Supplement; previously disbound from bound volume; light narrow waterstain along upper edges of last few pages (to blank margins only and not affecting pagination); 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 Colony of the Fiddle (on Ole Bull); Abo (the Capital of Russian Finland, with front cover engraving); two-paragraph A Popular Movement in Denmark; lengthy regular news column Foreign and Colonial News (topics include The Crimea Expedition - Russian Preparations; The Battles of Bayazid and Kurukdere; Turkey and Austria in the Principalities; Austrian Neutrality; The Austrian and Prussian Notes to Russia; A Skirmish at Shanghae; others); short The 'Charlemagne' at Constantinople (with engraving); short French Military Barracks Outside Pera (with engraving); short Rear-Admiral Plumridge (with portrait engraving); short New South Wales Regatta Cup (with engraving); Operations of the White Sea Squadron (with engravings "Attack on the Town of Novitska, in the White Sea, by the 'Miranda' and 'Brisk'" and "Burning of the Town of Novitska, in the White Sea"); The Royal Meeting at Boulogne (topics include The Grand Mass at the Camp; Arrival of the King of Portugal; The Arrival of Prince Albert; The Reception of Prince Albert; The Review at St. Omer - with engravings "The Meeting of His Royal Highness Prince Albert and the Emperor of the French, at Boulogne"; "Sketch of a Portion of the Camp at St. Omer"; two drawings of "Medal Struck at the Mint, at Paris, to Commemorate the Anglo-French Alliance"; and full-page engraving "The Grand Military Mass, at the Camp at Honvault, Near Boulogne, on Sunday Last"); Sweden and Norway - From a Correspondent; Marriage of the Sultan's Daughter (with two engravings: "The Marriage Procession of the Sultan's Daughter, at Constantinople" and "Marriage of the Sultan's Daughter - Fete at Baltaliman"); Militia and Yeomanry (with full-page engraving "English Militia and Yeomanry Cavalry"); The General Court-Martial at Windsor - From our Military Correspondent; Victoria London Docks (with engraving); Henry Russell (with portrait engraving); Sugar Manufacture in Brazil (with engraving); short The Capture of Bomarsund (with full-page engraving "Fort Nottich, Bomarsund - Breach Made by an English Three-Gun Battery"); Notes of a Rambler (No. III) - Fife-Aberdeen; untitled poem, author not mentioned, "On reading an abstract account of the prison horrors at Birmingham, and Lord Dudley Stuart's report of the state of our hospital at Constantinople, in the 'Times,' Friday, July 28, 1854"; occasional column Nooks and Corners of Old England - Belsize House (with engraving); Varna After the Recent Fire (with engraving); short Boat Attack, Aland Isles (with engraving); lengthy The War on the Danube - From our Special Correspondent (with two engravings and map).

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. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 201-224 including Supplement; previously disbound from bound volume; pages very lightly age-browned, former owner's name in pencil to upper right corner of front page, periodic light soil, else 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 The Resignation of the Ministry; The Mutiny in India; The New Ministry; The Royal Bridal Tour - The Illuminations at Berlin; Sketches in Parliament; The Royal Marriage Festivities in Berlin; Dr. Livingstone's Exploration of the Zambesi River; Transatlantic Sketches - Washington; The Trade of 1857; Conspiracy to Murder Bill; The War in China; Grenade Used in the Late Attack on the Life of the French Emperor; The Royal Marriage Tour. With numerous engravings, including front cover engraving Street and Bazaar in Peshawur; four splendid engravings accompanying the article The Royal Bridal Tour - The Illuminations at Berlin; full-page engraving The Royal Marriage Festivities in Berlin - Presentation of the Addresses by the Butchers and Merchants; full-page engraving The Royal Marriage Festivities in Berlin - Ball in the White Saloon; engraving Steam-Launch Built for Dr. Livingstone's Exploration of the Zambesi River; five engravings accompanying the article The War in China, including Tiger Island, Chinese Woman Reading, Firing 10-Inch Guns at Ty-Cock-Tow Forts (Canton River).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 1-24, including Supplement engraving; previously disbound from bound volume; pages 1-16 are in Near Fine condition; the two fold-out engravings comprising pages 17-24 to rear of issue are detached but present with the second fold-out engraving showing lengthy closed tear down the mid-fold, with attendant narrow chips and age-browning. 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 Old and The New Year; The Revolution in France ("The accompanying Illustrations show the localities of a few of the leading incidents in the recent coup d'etat in Paris and the departments of France"); The Baking and Breaking of the New Year's Eve Cake - A Christmas Custom in Ireland (with two engravings); The Right Hon. The Earl Granville, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (with engraving); The Clipper Ship 'Chrysolite' (with engraving); Convict Demands for Transportation to Australia - Mutiny; Fashions for the New Year (with engravings); Launch of the Iron Steam-Yacht 'Faid Gihaad' (with engraving); Non-Restraint in Lunacy; The Great Exhibition (with engravings, including double-page Grand Panorama of the Great Exhibition - No. V. - South-West Portion of the Nave and Grand Panorama of the Great Exhibition - No. VI. - South-West Portion of the Nave).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 137-152; previously disbound from bound volume. 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 New Reform Bill; The House of Lords Library (with engraving); The French Academy (with engraving); Launch of the 'Amazonas' Steam Frigate (with engraving); St. Mary's Church, Barnes, Surrey (with engraving); Spain - The Attempted Assassination of Queen Isabella (with engraving Attempted Assassination of the Queen of Spain in the Long Gallery of the Royal Palace, Madrid); The Fatal Inundation at Holmfirth (with several striking engravings, including Bursting of the Reservoir Embankment, Remains of Dighley Mill, Water-Street and Hinchliffe's Mill, Remains of Bridge and Site of Toll-House); British Institution - Works of Living Artists (with two engravings); The Tunbridge Wells and Hastings Railway (with four engravings); poem St. Valentine's-Day.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 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).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 249-264; stated "Music Supplement" not appearing in this number; previously disbound from bound volume. 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 Napoleonic Idea in France; The Viceroy of Egypt (with engraving of His Highness Abbas Pacha); Railway Works at Alexandria (with engraving); The Search in the Arctic Regions; The Burmese War (with three engravings); The Kaffir War (with engraving The Kaffir War - Graves of British Officers and Soldiers at Post Retief, Winterberg Mountains); Lacon's Patent Boat-Lowering Apparatus (with three figures); Fourth General Report of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners; The Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Right Hon. B. [Benjamin] Disraeli, M.P. (with portrait engraving); Great Grimsby Docks (with two engravings); Festivities at Audley End (with two engravings); Adelphi Theatre, Edinburgh; Removal of the Crystal Palace (with engraving The Sale by Auction in the Crystal Palace).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 297-312; previously disbound from bound volume. 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 West in the East; Captain Beatson's Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin (with engraving of the 'Isabel'); The Gold Fields of Australia; The Fate of the Crystal Palace; Yellow Fever - Insufficiency of Quarantine; Beet-Root Sugar Manufactory at Mount-Mellick (with engraving and two drawings); Silver-Gilt Bedstead (with engraving Silver Gilt Bedstead from Benares, Presented to Her Majesty); Mrs. Caroline Chisholm (with engraving); Neuilly (with engraving The Chateau of Neuilly, Near Paris); Sketches in Birmah (with engravings); Sir Edward Belcher's Artic Searching Squadron (with list of squadron and two engravings of the 'Assistance,' 'North Star,' 'Intreprid,' and 'Pioneer'); Extraordinary Statement Relative to the Fate of Sir John Franklin; Roman Remains Discovered in Cannon-Street, City (with engravings).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 313-328; previously disbound from bound volume. 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 Free Trade in Literature; 'A Black Camp' in New South Wales (with engraving); The Ships on the Ice Off Newfoundland; Malay Pirates in the China Seas (with engraving); Death of Prince Paul of Wurtemburg (with engraving); Blundell's Patent Sweeping Machine (with engraving); Dr. Reid's System of Lighting the House of Commons (with figure); Monument to the Late Earl of Powis, K.G. (with engraving); Proposed Restoration of St. Sepulchre's (Round) Church, Northampton (with engraving); Mademoiselle Johanna Wagner (with portrait engraving); Parliamentary Portraits (each with portrait engraving: The Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, Bart, M.P. for Droitwich, Secretary of State for the Colonies; and, The Earl of Desart, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies); The Artic Searching Expedition (with group engraving of The Artic Searching Squadron - Capt. Kellett, Capt. Sir E. Belcher, and Capt. Pullen); Consols at Par - Reduction of the National Debt; Lyceum Theatre (with engraving: Scene from the New Drama of 'The Chain of Events' - The Shipwreck); Haymarket Theatre (with engraving: Scene from the New Burlesque of 'O Gemini' - The Combat).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 385-400; previously disbound from bound volume. 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 French Military Festival (with engraving); lengthy France - The Fetes des Aigles; Capture of an Outlaw Near Allahabad, in the North-West Division of Bengal (with engraving Capture of the Robber Chief, Rundheer Singh, of Syfabad, in Oude); Cannon-Street, Opposite London-Stone, Removed for the City Improvement, July, 1850 (with engraving); Inauguration of the Salford Monument to the Late Sir Robert Peel (with engraving); Opening of the Nottingham Arboretum (with engraving and plan); full-page engraving Grand Military Fetes at Paris - Distribution of Eagles in the Champ de Mars; full-page engraving Grand Military Fetes at Paris - Review in the Champ de Mars; The National Society (with two engravings); Destruction of the R.Y.S. Schooner 'Titania' (with engraving); New Expedition to the South Seas (with engraving of the H.M.S. 'Herald' and the 'Torch' Steam Tender).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 417-436; previously disbound from bound volume. 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 Ministerial Recantations; 'Daniel O'Rourke,' The Winner of the 'Derby' (with front cover engraving); The Emperor of Russia in Berlin; The Voyage of the 'Great Britain'; Royal Academy Exhibition; Paris Fashions for June (with engravings); Procession of the Forts de la Halle (with engraving); The Bornese Pirates (with five engravings); Captain Reed's Improvement in Saddles; double-page engravings of Nimroud Antiquities in the British Museum; The Recent Fatal Colliery Explosion Near Aberdare (with engraving); Gold in Australia - Port Phillip District (with map and four engravings); Launch of the H.M.S. Agamemnon (with engraving); Championship of the Thames (with portrait engraving each of Thomas Cole and Robert Coombes).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 437-452; previously disbound from bound volume; pages very lightly age-browned. 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 Socialism of the French People and the French President; The 'El Dorado' in Sacramento (with engraving Gold in California); The Proposed Site of the Crystal Palace (with two engravings); Opening of the Silesian Industrial Exhibition (with engraving); India - The Burmese War (with five engravings "Sketches in Burmah"); 'Songstress,' Winner of the Oaks (with engraving); Balmes' House, Hoxton (with engraving); Madame Jullienne (with engraving of Madame Jullienne as 'La Juive'); Statue of the Late Sir Robert Peel (with engraving).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 1-16; previously disbound from bound volume; narrow waterstain along upper edges (to blank margins only); 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: lead article "The Old and the New Parliaments"; Review of the Hon. Artillery Company (with engraving Review of the Hon. Artillery Company, by His Royal Highness Prince Albert, Captain-General and Colonel); Foreign and Colonial News (including India and Australia); Terrific Affray in Stockport; Watering-Places of England (with two engravings); New National Schools, St. Peter's, Walworth (with engraving); New Church, Great Ealing, Middlesex (with engraving); Funeral of a French Refugee (Francis Goujon, with engraving); Gold in Australia (with six engravings, including Mount Alexander Gold Diggers at Evening Mess); Queen Adelaide Naval Fund (with engraving); Testimonial to the Rev. Joseph Brown, Rector of Christchurch (with engraving); Excessive Mortality on Board Ship (on the death of 274 persons, principally Chinese emigrants to California, on board the British ship the Lady Montague); Training Institution for Schoolmasters for the Diocese of Oxford (at Culham, with engraving).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 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).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 89-104; 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 The Ministerial Policy; Conflagration at Montreal (with four engravings: Great Fire at Montreal [Canada] - Dalhousie-Square, Hay's House, &c.; Great Fire at Montreal - Sketched From the North Corner of the Champ de Mars; Ruins of the Great Fire at Montreal - St. Denis-Street, Near the Bishop's Church; Encampment of Sufferers by the Great Fire at Montreal); Foreign and Colonial News - France, United States, West Indies including Revolution in Tahiti; General [Gaspard] Gourgaud (with portrait engraving); Funeral of Marshal Exelmans (with engraving); The Alleged 'Wrecking' on the Thames (with engraving of the 'Renown'); The New Crystal Palace; The Elections; Cork Harbour Regatta (with engraving); Billingsgate New Market (with engraving); The Great Palm House, Kew Gardens (with near-full-page splendid engraving); The Kilkenny Election (with engraving); Sussex Archaeological Society (with engraving); Temperance Grand Excursion (with engraving); The Royal Freemason's School for Female Children (with engraving); Paris Fashions for August (with two engravings); 'Kingston,' the Winner of the Goodwood Cup (with engraving).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 193-208; 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 Free Libraries or Free Literature?; Birmingham Musical Festival (with engraving); Opening of the Manchester Free Library (with engraving); First Regatta of the Lisbon Yachts (with engraving); Land-Slip Near Linton, North Devon - Remarkable Escape (with engraving); Meeting of the British Association (with engravings of The Giant's Causeway; Port Coon Cave; Carrick A Rede Near the Giant's Causeway); Agrarian Murder (of Mr. O'Callaghan Ryan); The Vraic, or Sea-Weed Harvest, Guernsey (with two engravings); Sketches of the Calais Fetes (with five engravings); Warwick Race Plate (with engraving); Oak Struck by Lightning (with engraving); The Electric Time-Ball (West Strand, with engraving); The Late Joseph W. Allen, Landscape Painter (with portrait); Harbour of Refuge, Jersey (with engraving); The Nelson Column (with bas-relief); Statuette of the Duke of Wellington (with engraving); The Roman Wall of London (with engraving and two sketches).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 297-312; 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 Recent Law and Chancery Reforms; Shipwrecks and Loss of Life; Great Floods; Launch of the New Iron Emigrant Ship, the "W.S. Lindsay," at Willington, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (with engraving); Opening of Victoria College, Jersey (with engraving); Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (with two engravings The Castle de Sancto Laudo, Newton-Park, Somerset; and Ruins of Farleigh-Hungerford Castle, Somerset); Tomb Recently Discovered in St. Mary's Church, Redcliffe, Bristol (with etching); Eruption of Etna (with two engravings); Tour of the French President in the South (with two engravings, including front cover); The New Crystal Palace (with engraving Taking Casts of the Sphynx, at the Louvre); The "Duke" [of Wellington] as a Musical Amateur; Sketches at Stratfieldsay (with two engravings); humorous Letters Left at the Pastrycook's: Being the Clandestine Correspondence Between Kitty Glover at School, and Her "Dear, Dear Friend" in Town, edited by Horace Mayhew (with two engravings); Improvement and Enlargement of Guy's Hospital [Southwark] (with engraving).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 329-344; previously disbound from bound volume. 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 Napoleon III; The Third Ring of Saturn; The Royal Visit to Wales (with front cover engraving Her Majesty's Visit to the Britannia Tubular Bridge and six other engravings, including Reception of the Queen at the Chester Station and Reception of Her Majesty at Bangor); Reminiscences of "The Duke" (The Duke of Wellington, with three engravings: Bust of the Late Duke of Wellington; The Waterloo Gold Vase Presented to the Duke by the Merchants and Bankers of London; and The Last Official Visit of the Duke to the Works at Dover Harbour); The Duke's Funeral; Fatal Duel Near Windsor; Return of the Prince President to Paris (with two engravings); The Great Northern Railway (with engraving); Slip on the Great Northern Railway (with engraving); Noor Gool (with portrait engraving Noor Gool, Chief of the Halimzyes, Momund Tribe); "Weathergage," Winner of the Cesarewitch Stakes, at Newmarket (with engraving); Progress of the New Crystal Palace at Sydenham; Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, New York, 1853 (with engraving); The Salisbury Exhibition (with engraving); The Great Industrial Exhibition at Dublin, 1853 (with engraving).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 489-504; previously disbound from bound volume; light, minor age spots throughout. 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 Great Free-Trade Debate; front cover engraving Funeral of the Late Duke of Wellington - Entrance of the Procession into St. Paul's Cathedral; The Revolutions in the River Plate (with engraving Battle of Monte Caseros and The Battle of Tonelero - "Alfonso" Steamer); General Don Justo Jose de Urquiza (with engraving); Vice-Admiral Grenfell, of the Imperial Brazilian Navy (with engraving); The Burmese War (with engraving The Dagon Pagoda, at Rangoon); The Empire in France (with two engravings); The Inundation at Oxford (with striking full-page engraving and two others: The Inundation of Christchurch Meadows, Oxford, and The Inundation at Birmingham, Sketched Below Deritend-Bridge); The Late Dr. [Gideon A.] Mantell (with portrait engraving); Foynes Harbour, River Shannon (with engraving); The Screw Steam-Ship "Adelaide" (with engraving and diagrams); Smithfield Club Cattle Show (with engraving).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 17-32; previously disbound from bound volume; front and rear pages detached but present; pages lightly age-toned; light foxing. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and news items, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article "City Arabs" and "Home Heathens"; Shipwreck, Terrific Explosion, and Loss of Thirty-Five Lives, at the Calf of Man; Naval and Military Intelligence; Foreign and Colonial News; Obituary of Eminent Persons; Provincial Intelligence; Epitome of News, Foreign and Domestic; Destructive Storm at Penzance; Wrecks in the Mersey; The Steamer "Neptune" Off the Coast of Norway; Consecration of the New Church of St. Matthew, Marylebone; Hurricane at Oxford; The Revenue; Church, Universities, &c.; The Court; Railway Intelligence; Metropolitan News; National Sports; Admission of the Public to Apsley-House; Grand Chapter of the Order of Charles III, at Madrid; full-page engraving "Annual Chapter of the Order of Don Carlos III, at Madrid, in the Presence of the King and Queen of Spain"; full-page engraving "The New Ministry - The Cabinet"; The New Cabinet Ministers - Biographical Outlines; Ministerial Opinions from the Hustings; The Re-Elections; Chess; Literature; Music; The New Residence of the Russian Embassy; Testimonial to the Rev. S.F. Ramsey; Goura Victoria Pigeons; The Royal Mail Steam-Ship "Arabia"; A Scene at the Theatre Royal, Jersey; Thomas Wright, The Manchester Prison Philanthropist; The Geological Survey of the United Kingdom; Monetary Transactions of the Week; The Markets; The New Grammar-School at Lancaster; Marble Statues Discovered in Windsor Forest; advertisements.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 49-64; previously disbound from bound volume; front and rear pages detached but present; pages lightly age-toned; light foxing. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and news items, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article Proposed Reforms in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; Great Delivery of Australian Gold; Foreign and Colonial News; Obituary of Eminent Persons; Sandown Castle; Montenegro: Its Vladika and People; The Italian Boulevards, Paris; The Burmese War; The Court; Church, Universities, &c.; Metropolitan News; Provincial Intelligence; Railway Intelligence; Epitome of News - Foreign and Domestic; The Gold Fields of Australia (with several engravings headlined "The Turon Gold Diggings"); Sale of the Orleans Gallery; The Theatres, &c.; Music; National Sports; Chess; Naval and Military Intelligence; The Great Metropolitan Poultry Show; New Church at Kingswood, Surrey; Launch of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's Steam-ship the "Vectis"; Statuette of the Marquis of Dalhousie, K.T.; Law and Police Intelligence; Monetary Transactions of the Week; The Markets; The London Gazette; Ericsson's Caloric-Ship; advertisements; The Duke of Argyll, Lord Privy Seal.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 137-152; previously disbound from bound volume; the lightest of foxing in places. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and news items, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article The Ministerial Programme; Grand State Ball at the Luxembourg; Foreign and Colonial News - including the Insurrection at Milan, and lengthy report from Washington, D.C. on America ("This is the gay season in Washington"); The Packet-Ship "Marco Polo"; His Highness Abbas Pacha's Palace at Benha, and the Site of the Intended Railway Bridge Over the Damietta Branch of the Nile; Mr. Bartley ("Late of the Princess' Theatre"); The Theatres, &c.; The Court; Church, Universities, &c.; Imperial Parliament; Dinner to Nonconformist Members of Parliament; Exhibition of the British Institution; Metropolitan News; Music; Provincial Intelligence; Ireland; National Sports; Chess; Epitome of News, Foreign and Domestic; The Countess de Tera (Empress of the French at Madrid (short entry, with engraving); Railway Between Seaham and Sunderland; Charlecote New Church; Ancient Chapel in Leadenhall-Street; Railway Intelligence; Monetary Transactions of the Week; The Markets; The London Gazette; Dreadful Shipwreck and Loss of Life (the "Queen Victoria"); advertisements; Parliamentary Portraits; Mr. Kenneth Macaulay, M.P. for Cambridge (Borough).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 193-208; previously disbound from bound volume; the lightest of foxing in places. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and news items, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article The Prospects of the Ottoman Empire; Parliamentary Election Committees; Imperial Parliament; Interoceanic Routes Across Central America (with map and engraving "Bird's-Eye View From the Junction of the Proposed Canal With the Savana River to the Atlantic"); Great Shoal of Whales; Metropolitan Improvements; Parliamentary Portraits; The Manufacture of Paper; The Court; Church, Universities, &c.; Foreign and Colonial News; Marriage at Notre Dame (regarding the "allotment of wedding portions to certain couples by the Imperial liberality"); short Monument to Lady Margaret Maria Cocks; Apparatus for the Removal of Large Trees; Banquet at the Town-Hall, Liverpool; Obituary of Eminent Persons; Metropolitan News; Provincial Intelligence; Chess; Epitome of News, Foreign and Domestic; Female Emigration Fund; Fine Arts; Music; The Theatres; Monetary Transactions of the Week; The Markets; The London Gazette; advertisements; Protestant Testimonial to the Rev. Dr. Cumming; short The Corridor of Committee-Rooms, House of Commons.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 265-280; previously disbound from bound volume; the lightest of foxing in places. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and news items, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article The Education of the People; Total Destruction of the "Duke of Sutherland" Steamer, at Aberdeen; Foreign and Colonial News - including Life in Australia; Obituary of Eminent Persons; Provincial Intelligence; Mr. Ellis, the Industrial and Ragged School Teacher; New Zealand - Native Church at Otaki - Christchurch, Canterbury Colony; The Burmese War; poem "England and America" (to the tunr of "Yankee Doodle"); The Court; Church, Universities, &c.; Metropolitan News; The Theatres; Music; Exhibition of the Society of British Artists; National Institution of the Fine Arts; Imperial Parliament; Law and Police Intelligence; Chess; Epitome of News - Foreign and Domestic; School of Oriental Languages, at Paris; short Slavery in the United States; The Holy Places; short Silver Cup Presented to the Rev. Mr. Keane; Tercentenary of the Bromsgrove Grammar-School; Parliamentary Portraits; National Sports; The Markets; The London Gazette; Colliery Explosion at Wigan; advertisements; short Antiquities Discovered at Woolwich; short Princess' Theatre - "Marco Spada.".