Author: [Illustrated London News]
Title: The Illustrated London News (24 Misc. Issues, 1846-1853)
Description: London, Illustrated London News, 1846 to 1853. Hardcover. Elephant folio. Various issues bound in 3/4 leather over marbled boards. Most pages show light soiling, or foxing; although occasionally some pages show closed tears, or heavier soiling. The binding is worn but still tight. Overall, in good condition. Ill.: engravings, woodcuts, maps. This is a made-up volume of loose issues of these publications: 10/3/1846; 10/31/1846; 6/7/1851 (duplex rudder & screw propeller, sketches in India); 6/14/1851 (Exhibition Supplement, with double-page 'bird's-eye view' of the Crystal Palace); 7/5/1851 (firearm illusts.); 7/5/1851 (Second Supplement); 7/12/1851 (double-page illust. of Queen Victoria's procession at state ball); 7/26/1851 ('The Jewish Question'; illusts. of cattle, map of Europe); 7/26/1851 (stuffed frogs and cats); 10/25/1851 (submarine elec. telegraph, Australian gold discoveries, steam apparatus in mills); 12/27/1851 (railroads in Canada, H.M. Arctic steam vessel 'Intrepid' on an iceberg, Christmas pantomime illusts.); 1/3/1852 (grand panorama of the Great Exhibition) ; 1/10/1852; 2/7/1852 (Supplement); 2/21/1852 (canoes crossing the River St. Lawrence); 4/10/1852 (Oxford and Cambridge boat race, travelling in the United States - articles and illusts. ascent of Mount Blanc, the Burmese War, death of Wellington); 8/20/1852 (weekly issue and Supplement); 2/5/1853 (the Imperial marriage of Napoleon III - articles and illusts.); 5/28/1853 (Zulu kaffirs, celebrated raceshorses & jockeys); 7/30/1853; 8/20/1853 (grand review at Spitshead); 8/27/1853; 10/1/1853; 10/15/1853.

Keywords: Engravings;Crystal Palace;Great Exhibition;California;Gold mining;Gold mines;Arctic;Telegraph;Telegraphy engravings, woodcuts, maps


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