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Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 469-484 (Issue No. 460) and pages 485-500 (Issue No. 461, Christmas Supplement); previously disbound from bound volume; a handsome copy, in two sections by issue 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 Christmas ("Once more the great Christian festival approaches, appealing to the world by the reminiscences of the day for the celebration of which it was founded, in behalf of the great principle of 'peace on earth, and goodwill towards men'"); Manufacture of Glass for the Crystal Palace, with engraving; Foreign and Colonial News - including United States and Australia; Naval and Military Intelligence - including Blowing Up a Portuguese 32-Gun Ship; Papal Aggression - Meetings, Events, Documents; Country News - including Opening of the Liverpool Sailors' Home, Smuggling in the Port of Bristol, Effects of Masking - Two Children Terrified to Death, Cunning Fraud; Frozen-Out Gardeners and Snow Clearers by Thomas Miller, with two moving engravings; Metropolitan News - including Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane, Royal Naval Female School, Aid to the Indigent in St. Andrew's, Suicide of Mr. George Spence, Q.C., of the Chancery Bar, Murderous Attack and Street Robbery, Births and Deaths; splendid full-page engraving Arrival of Christmas Train, Eastern Counties Railway; Grand Industrial Exhibition for Canada - Festivals at Montreal, with engravings; delightful spoof The Dreadful Turn-Out of a French Plum-Pudding!!! Or, The Misfortunes of Monsieur and Madame de la Betise, Whose Grand Object in Life Was to Live in the English Style, Truthfully Narrated, with several illustrations; The Ship 'Oriental,' with engraving; The Grocer's Shop on Christmas Eve by John Oxenford, with charming engraving; The Miserable Club; Or, The Woes of Brown and Wiggins, by Lancelot Wiggins; Christmas Interiors, by The Old Bachelor, with illustrations; Cold Out Of Doors, and Cold In-Doors; Or, 'Tom Smither's Christmas Day,' with illustrations; The Fairy Tale of Fairy Tales, Arranged From the Original Mss. in the Archives of Feefoo, in the Imperial Library of Aragameta, by Anthony B. Montalba, with illustrations; The Sick Giant and the Doctor Dwarf by Douglas Jerrold, with illustrations by William Harvey; Black-And-All-Black: A Legend of the Padereen Mare, Related on a Christmas Eve, by An Old Senachie, by W. Carleton, Esq., with illustrations; Hunting the Wren, with illustrations by James Mahony; full-page A Song for Christmas with music and lyrics entitled Smile, Old Winter: A Christmas Ballad with music by Blewitt and poetry by C. Mackay; The Emigrant's Christmas; Bow Bells by John Timbs, with engraving; Christmas Eve in Devonshire, with engraving; The Old and New Year by John Heraud. N° de réf. du vendeur 006531
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