- The Illustrated London News Vol. LVI (January-June 1870)

London, George C. Leighton, 1870. Hardcover. Ex-library. An oversize hardcover book with a black cloth spine, green cloth boards, and black leather corners. Corners rubbed through and a few library markings inside. A foldout illustration is torn and cracked into pieces (plate facing p. 620). Otherwise, text itself is clean and binding tight. Volume 56 of the ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, containing all issues from January 1 through June 25, 1870. Includes reporting on the First Vatican Council (with numerous fine engravings depicting Pope Pius IX and the ceremonies of the Council) and a review of LOTHAIR by Benjamin Disraeli. Contains plenty of fine engravings, including a full-page portrait of Charles Dickens, ladies' fashions of the day, and much more. Measures approx. 16" x 11.75". The folding Oxford plate is present but it is detached and torn into about a half dozen pieces. .

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