The Illustrated London News (Single Complete Issue: Vol. XXIV No. 670, February 25, 1854) With Lead Article "The State of the Nation" and Supplement "Prince Jerome Bonaparte"

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

Published by Herbert Ingram, London, England, 1854

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Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 157-180 including 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); pages lightly age-browned; periodic light age spots. 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 State of the Nation (which begins: "How do we stand at the opening of a long-averted, but inevitable war? How is the British nation circumstanced at a crisis which, in all human likelihood, is the commencement of a new European era?"); short Her Majesty's Steam-Frigate 'Euryalus,' at Chatham (with front cover engraving); Colliery Explosion and Dreadful Loss of Life; lengthy news update on The War; Preparations for War; 'Campaign Ovens' for Victualling the French Troops (with engraving); Great Fire at Quebec (with engraving); Wreck in the Bay of Bengal (with engraving); short Rifle Volunteers at Portsmouth (with engraving); short Battery Practice at Portsmouth (with engraving); Inspection of the Guards by Prince Albert (with engraving); Farewell Banquet to the Officers of the Guards (with engraving); View of Sebastopol, at the Gallery of Illustration (with engraving); Opening of the Poplar Sailors' Home (with engraving); lengthy The War on the Danube (with engraving Panoramic View of the Town and Fortifications of Schumla; portrait engraving of the Governor of Schumla); Prince Jerome Bonaparte (with engraving); The Artificial Propagation of Salmon and Other Fish; The Non-Commissioned Officers of the British Army; 'Fishing Boats in a Squall' by Turner in the Bridgewater Gallery (with engraving); New Pianoforte Music; The British Institution (with two art engravings). Seller Inventory # 007423

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Illustrated London News (Single Complete...

Publisher: Herbert Ingram, London, England

Publication Date: 1854

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Good

Edition: First Edition