illustrated london news two numbers de herbert ingram charles mackay william (12 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. Overview and condition: complete double-number issue containing pages 329-360; previously disbound from bound volume; please note that although stated "Three Numbers" the third number (Issue No. 558) was issued the following week on May 8; the splendid fold-out engraving "The Last Promenade at the Crystal Palace" is detached but present and shows to short closed edge tears (to blank margin only). 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 Excise Duty on Paper, and the Taxes on Knowledge; Newmarket First Spring Meeting (with engraving 'Stockwell,' The Winner of the 2000 Guineas Stakes, at the Newmarket Spring Meeting); Death by Starvation of the Patagonian Mission; Social Effects of the Gold Discoveries in Australia; Paris Fashions for May (with engraving); Destructive Fire in Berkshire (with engraving of ruins); New Railway and General Traffic Bridge at Dresden (with engraving); Homerton College (with engraving); The American Clipper Ship 'Witch of the Wave' (with engraving); Departure of the Artic Searching Expedition (with group engraving of the Artic Searching Squadron); Laying of the Foundation-Stone of the St. Thomas's Charterhouse New Schools (with engraving); The Crystal Palace - Proposed Additions (with engraving); The Wellington Campaigns; The Taxes Which Obstruct the Spread of Education; (May Supplement): May in Town; A Fete Champetre in the Days of Charles II (with engraving); May and Its Flowers; The Last Promendate at the Crystal Palace (with spendid double-page engraving); The Sqaunders of Castle Squander; It is May-Day!; The Newest Fable of Hans C. [Christian] Andersen 'There is a Difference'; May in Ireland; Cora, A May Legend; A Column of Old May.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Overview and condition: two complete issue Nos. 589 and 590 containing pages 393-424; previously disbound from bound volume; narrow waterstain along upper edges (to blank margins only); light foxing in places; a few small spots to left edge of front cover (to blank margin only). 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 Wellington's Work: Has It Been Neutralised by the Revival of Bonapartism?; Foreign and Colonial News - France (with front cover engraving Re-Establishment of the French Empire - Sitting of the Senate); Funeral of the Duke of Wellington (with subheadings Removal of the Body to London and The Lying in State); The Search for John Franklin; The Submarine Electric Telegraph (with engraving of the Instrument-Room); The New Patent Law (with engraving Dinner at Dee's Hotel, Birmingham, to Celebrate the Passing of the Patent Law Amendment Act); Storm Off the Northumberland Coast (with engraving); The Earthquake in the North; The Subterranean Telegraph; Opening of Parliament (with the full text of The Queen's Speech); full-page engraving Opening of the New Parliament - Arrival of Her Majesty at the Victoria Tower, House of Lords; full-page engraving The Victoria Gallery, House of Lords; The Movers and Seconders of the Address; two-page musical score "Wellington's Funeral March" composed by Sir Henry R. Bishop; Daniel Webster, Secretary of State of the United States of America (with portrait engraving of The Late Daniel Webster); Abd-El-Kader at Versailles (with engraving); Wellington Supplement to the Illustrated London News including: poem Midnight Watch at Walmer Castle (with engraving); The Duke of Wellington as an Orator; The Duke of Wellington as a Diplomatist; engraving Bust of the Duke of Wellington; St. Paul's - The Crypt - The Great Bell (with two engravings); engraving of the Wellington Candelabra; "The Duke" at the Horse Guards (with two engravings); The Duke in His Private and Social Capacity; Statues and Portraits, and Memorials of Wellington (with engraving The Late Duke of Wellington, From an Original Portrait Painted by Salter); exceptional full-page engraving Last Moments of the Duke of Wellington; Solemn Interment of George Monk, Duke of Albemarle (with engravings Part of the Funeral Procession of General Monk, Duke of Albemarle, in 1670 and The Body of Monk Lying in State in Westminster Abbey); Grand State Funeral of Lord Nelson (with engravings Funeral of Admiral Lord Nelson in 1806); Heroes Buried in St. Paul's Cathedral; The Princely Obsequies of Sir Philip Sidney (with engraving Part of the Funeral Procession of Sir Philip Sidney - The Body).

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue numbers 639 and 640 containing pages 125-160 plus unpaginated advertisements; previously disbound from bound volume; two-page fold-out engraving detached but present; the lightest of age-spots and 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 Working Classes and Their Strikes; The Overland Mail; Progress of the Chinese Rebellion; lengthy report on Australia; Tomb of the Emperor Napoleon at the Hotel des Invalides (with seven drawings and engravings and full-page engraving "Interior of the Church of the Invalides, at Paris"); The Fete of the Emperor (with full-page engraving "Fete of the Emperor - Illumination and Balloon Ascent in the Champs Elysees"); Alleged Christianity of the Chinese Insurgents; Great Fire at Dover; Imperial Parliament; The Smyth Forgeries Case; Fine Arts - The National Gallery; Literary Miscellanies No. IV. - A Friend of Talleyrand; The Camp at Chobham; Fete to Messrs. Whatman and Lee, at Vinters Park, Near Maidstone; Nooks and Corners of Old England - Chapel in Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight; Destruction by Fire of Messrs. Kirkman's Piano-forte Manufactory; Deal New Parochial Schools; St. Pancras Almshouses; Frightful Accident at the Crystal Palace; Obituary of Eminent Persons; Epitome of News - Foreign and Domestic; Literature (book reviews); Vice-Admiral Deans Dundas, C.B.; short Moldo-Wallachian Peasantry; advertisements; Metropolitan News - including Health of London; Provincial Intelligence; Music; The Theatres; "Rational Amusements for the Industrious Classes"; National Sports; Monetary Transactions of the Week; The Markets; The London Gazette; Foreign and Colonial News - including The Turkish Question; The Court; Obituary of Eminent Persons; advertisements; lead article (Issue No. 640) The Review at Spithead - The Application of Steam to Naval Warfare; front-page engraving "Her Majesty in the Admiral's Barge"; lengthy The Grand Review of the British Fleet at Spithead; full-page engraving "Her Majesty Proceeding to 'The Duke of Wellington' Flag-Ship"; full-page engraving "Fleet Forming Line Abreast"; lengthy The British Fleet, With an Account of the Several Vessels Employed in the Spithead Review (with extensive list of vessels, each with description and history); splendid double-page engraving "Grand Review at Spithead - The Boat Attack"; Naval Review in Former Times; Manning of the Royal Navy; A New System of Coast Defence; The Late Naval Review, As Seen From Bembridge Down, Isle of Wight; three-page musical score "The Iron Ship" (Old English Air, with poetry by Charles Mackay); full-page engraving "'The Engagement,' Twenty-Five Minutes to Four.".

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue numbers 625 and 626 containing pages 433-464; 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 Turkish Question; The New Artic Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, in H.M.S.S. "Phoenix"; Naval and Military Intelligence; Foreign and Colonial News - including The Rebellion in China; Imperial Parliament; Opening of the First Railway in India; The Mahmoudieh Canal; Church, Universities, &c.; Obituary of Eminent Persons; The Court; The Queen's Court, &c.; Metropolitan News; Grand Review at Woolwich; Grand Ball at the British Embassy at Paris; The Queen's Drawingroom (with full-page engraving "St. James's-Street - Her Majesty's Drawingroom"); National Sports; Music; The Theatres; Provincial Intelligence; Epitome of News - Foreign and Domestic; Chess; The Camp at Chobham; Chantilly Races; Fine Arts - Exhibition of Studies From the Schools of Art; Sale of the Pictures of the Late King Louis Philippe; Monetary Transactions of the Week; The Markets; The London Gazette; New Town, Dumbarton; short Destructive Fire at Watford; advertisements; Discovery of a Roman Sarcophagus; Dublin Great Industrial Exhibition Supplement, including: The Great Industrial Exhibition of Ireland (with sections The Austrian and Prussian Department, France, The Belgian Department, The Japan Collection, Indian Collection, Viscount Gough's Collection, The Chinese Collection, Ceramic Manufactures); Raw Materials (with sections I. Turf or Peat, II. Coal and Anthracite, III. Iron, IV. Copper, The Speculum of Lord Rosse's Telescope, V. Lead, VI. Gold and Silver, Other Mineral Products of Ireland, The Irish Marble Court, The Serpentine Marbles, Flax and Its Products); two full-page engravings entitled "Opening of the Dublin Great Industrial Exhibition" and "The Dublin Great Industrial Exhibition"; Manufactures (with sections The Linen Manufactures of Ireland, Linens, Sewed Muslin, Irish Poplins and Tabinets, Woollens, Lace, Crochet-Work, Bog-Oak, Musical Instruments, Manufactured Metals); Court of Ancient Irish Art; Plan (drawing) of the Dublin Exhibition; short Interview of Mr. Roney with the Prince President of France.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Overview and condition: two complete issue Nos. 574 and 575 containing pages 121-152; 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 Emigration and the Gold Fever ("The most popular word of the present day is 'Nuggets'"); Sketches from the Turon Gold Fields, New South Wales (with ten engravings); poem Peter Brown's Reasons for Not Going to the Diggings (which begins: "No more of Australia! my arms are too old; And my back is too stiff to go digging for gold"); Pentonville Prison; Her Majesty's Visit to Belgium (with six engravings, including front cover); The 'Challenger' Life-Boat (with three drawings and engraving Richardson's Patent Tubular Life-Boat); The Blue Flag on Cross Fell [Cumberland] (with engraving); Sketches in Burmah (with three engravings); The Season of 1852 at Her Majesty's Theatre; Government by Shows - The Paris Fetes (with six engravings); The Late and the Present Napoleon; Paris, Its Workshops and Work-People; The Naval Combat on the Seine; The Passage of the Mont St. Bernard; The President's Soiree at St. Cloud; The Grand Ball in the Marche des Innocens; full-page engraving Colossal Statue of Napoleon, in the Champs Elysees; full-page engraving The Grand Ball at the Marche des Innocens; The Great Exhibition of 1851 - Reports of the Juries, Printed for the Royal Commission, 1852; The Kaffir War (with four engravings); Extraordinary Meteor (with two drawings); The New Crystal Palace at Sydenham (with engraving and ground-plan).

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Overview and condition: two complete issue Nos. 579 and 580 containing pages 209-240, with lead article from No. 580 "Death of the Duke of Wellington" [Arthur Wellesley] and "Memoir of The Life and Military Services of The Duke of Wellington"; previously disbound from bound volume; narrow waterstain along upper edges (to blank margins only); light waterstains along left edge of front cover (to blank margin only); pages lightly age-toned; 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: Hereford Musical Festival (with front cover engraving The Grand Musical Festival in Hereford Cathedral); Sicily - The Eruption of Mount Etna (with three engravings); The North American Fisheries; The Koh-I-Noor [Diamond] (with three drawings); Coorg Harvest Festival (with engraving); Statue to [Robert] Peel at Bury (with engraving); The Late Duke of Wellington; Treaty of Commerce Between France and England; Destructive Storm in Worcestershire (with four engravings headlined "The Inundation in Worcestershire"); Launch of H.M.S. Windsor Castle, 140 Guns (with engraving and figure-head); Arrival of the Swedish Yacht 'Sverige' at Cowes; The Braemar Gatherings; National Education - Instruction in Drawing; The British Association at Belfast - Excursion to the Giant's Causeway; Majority of the Earl of Dalkeith - Celebration at Sanquhar (with engraving); Opening of the Morayshire Railway (with engraving); Sevres and Other Porcelains at the Exhibition of Art Manufactures (with engraving); "In the Clouds;" or, Some Account of a Balloon Trip with Mr. Green by Henry Mayhew (with engraving); Supplement to the London News (Issue No. 580), black-bordered and entirely devoted to the "Life of the Duke of Wellington" (with entries Death of the Duke of Wellington; Memoir of The Life and Military Services of The Duke of Wellington, with several engravings, and sections including Partition of the Conquered District - Command in the Mysore; Dhoondiah Waugh; Appointment at Trincomalee; Invasion of the Mahratta Country; Battle of Assaye; Lake's Victories; Battle of Argaum; Return to England - Marriage; Chief Secretaryship in Ireland; Expedition to Denmark; Resumption of the Irish Secretaryship; Expedition to Portugal - Battle of Roliea; Battle of Vimiera; Return to England; Second Appearance and Command in the Peninsula; Passage of the Douro; Battle of Talavera; The Lines of Torres Vedras; Battles of Busaco and Barossa; Fuentes D'Onoro; Siege of Badajoz; Ciudad Rodrigo; Battle of Salamanca; Battle of Vittoria; Battles of the Pyrenees - Siege of St. Sebastian - The Bidassoa; Nivelle - Orthez; Battle of Toulouse; Return to England; Congress of Vienna; Campaign in the Netherlands; Battle of Waterloo; Civil and Political Career; The Duke of Wellington in the House of Lords; full-page table Precis of the Commissions, Services, Official Commands, and Public Honours of Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington; Strathfieldsay; Walmer Castle).

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Overview and condition: two complete issue Nos. 581 and 582 containing pages 241-272, with lead article from No. 581 "The Duke's Funeral" [Arthur Wellesley] and No. 582 Wellington Supplement "Wellington's Place in the World" this latter issue black-bordered; 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: The Duke's Funeral; Portrait of the Late Countess of Mornington, Mother of the Duke of Wellington (with front cover engraving); Foreign and Colonial News, including Australia - The Gold Fields, Editorial Perils in California, American Emigrant Ships - Frightful Tragedy; The Late Duke of Wellington; Respect to the Memory of the Duke in the Provinces; French Titles of the Duke of Wellington; Burning of the Ship 'Thomas Thompson' (with engraving); Opening of a New Basin in the Arsenal of Naples (with engraving); Harvest at the Philanthropic Society's Farm, Red Hill (with engraving); Westwood Park (with engraving); France - The President's Tour to the South (with engraving); Inundation in France (with engraving The Village of Boucharge Inundated by the Rhone); Exhibition of Poultry at Great Yarmouth (with two engravings); Teignmouth Made an Independent Port (with engraving); Opening of the South Wales Railway Between Carmarthen and Llanelly (with two engravings); 'Stockwell,' The Winner of the St. Leger (with engraving); Wellington Supplement, each page black-bordered, and with numerous engravings, entitled "Wellington's Place in the World" (with sections: lengthy The Duke of Wellington, As Politician and Civilian; The Real Birth-Place of the Duke; Castlecarbury; The Wellington Chair; Bust of the Duke of Wellington, by Mr. Noble; Wellingtoniana; The Duke on Horseback; Walmer Castle; A French Writer's Estimate of the Duke's Character; The "Duke" as a Musical Amateur; Royal Descent (with ancestor tree starting with Edward I); Wellington's Battles at One View (table); double-page musical score "Mourn for the Mighty Dead" composed by Sir H. R. Bishop and poetry by Charles Mackay; Street Reminiscence of the Duke; The Duke's Horse at Walmer; Bust of the Duke, and Tenure-Flag, in Windsor Castle.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Overview and condition: two complete issues Nos. 596 and 597 containing pages 505-536; previously disbound from bound volume; light, narrow waterstain along upper edges of Issue No. 596 (to blank margins only); a few short closed edge tears along right edge of fold-out plate as well as periodic small chips to upper edge (all 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 The Budget; The Search for Sir John Franklin (with four engravings); Sir Edward Belcher's Artic Expedition; The Large Print of the Funeral of the Late Duke of Wellington in St. Paul's Cathedral; Smithfield Club Cattle Show (with three engravings of Smithfield Club Prize Cattle); The Empire in France - The Deputation of the Legislative Corps at St. Cloud, Proclamation at the Hotel de Ville, Entry of the Emperor into Paris (with three engravings); Reaping Machinery (with several figures); Presents from Mexico to Her Majesty and the Prince of Wales (with three engravings); Floods at Salisbury (with engraving); Parliamentary Portraits (Mr. George Alexander Hamilton for Dublin University, with portrait engraving); Beaumont Institution (with engraving Lecture on the Duke of Wellington and His Times, at the Beaumont Institution, Mile-End); lead article for Issue No. 597 entitled The Duke of Wellington as Administrator of the Army; engraving Funeral of the Late Duke of Wellington - The Procession in Pall-Mall; The Duke of Wellington as an Agriculturist and Landlord; Dr. Cumming's Lecture on the Career and Character of the Duke of Wellington; The Great Duke Receiving the Thanks of Parliament; splendid full-page engraving The Late Duke of Wellington at the Bar of the House of Commons, Addressed by the Speaker; splendid full-page engraving Temple-Bar, on the Night Before the Funeral of the Duke of Wellington; Wellington Tributes; magnificent double-page fold-out engraving Funeral of the Late Duke of Wellington - Arrival of the Car at St. Paul's Cathedral; Oliver Cromwell's State Funeral (with engraving Cromwell Lying in State); engraving The Hero and His Horse on the Field of Waterloo, Twenty Years After the Battle from painting by B. R. Haydon; Batons of the Late Duke of Wellington (with engraving); Miniature of the Duke of Wellington by Isabey (with engraving); Portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Pellegrini (with engraving); The Duke's Birth and School-Days (with two engravings: Room in Dangan Castle, and First School of the Late Duke of Wellington, at Trim); The Crypt of St. Paul's. Lowering the Body of the Duke of Wellington (with engraving); An After-Dinner Speech of the Duke; The Model-Room, at St. Paul's Cathedral (with engraving); The Duke's Birthplace.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue numbers 606 and 607 containing pages 89-120; previously disbound from bound volume; front and rear pages of the Supplement detached but present. 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 Celebration of the Emperor's Marriage (Napoleon III); "Sea Elephants," or Elephant Seals; Foreign and Colonial News; Obituary of Eminent Persons; The Weather and Mortality in the Metropolitan Districts in the Year 1852; Chantilly; Impending Famine in Madeira; The New City Prison, Holloway; Church, Universities, &c.; The Court; Metropolitan News; Kaffir Prisoners at the Cape; Steam to Australia - The "Antelope" and the "Marco Polo" - Screw v. Sail; Melfi, After the Late Earthquake; Naval and Military Intelligence; Music; The Theatres; Epitome of News - Foreign and Domestic; Chess; Fine Arts; Celebration of Lord Pevensey's Twenty-First Birthday; St. James's Hospital, Doncaster; The Clipper Schooner "Marian Zagury"; Testimonial to Mr. R.N. Philipps; Testimonial to Major Maugham; Visitation of Trinity College, Oxford; Lord Raglan; Raglan Castle; Provincial Intelligence; Law and Police Intelligence; National Sports; Monetary Transactions of the Week; The Markets; The London Gazette; Paris Fashions for February; Imperial Marriage Supplement (Napoleon III) including: Marriage of the Emperor of the French; The Imperial Marriage - Civil Ceremony; The Religious Ceremony - Preparations in the Streets of Paris; full-page engraving "Arrival of the Imperial Procession at Notre Dame"; full-page engraving "The Marriage Ceremony in Notre Dame - The Altar"; Preparations at Notre Dame; Interior of Notre Dame; The Imperial Procession to Notre Dame; Arrival at Notre Dame; The Religious Ceremony [transcript]; Return of the Procession; The Palace of the Tuileries; full-page engraving "Napoleon III, Emperor of the French"; full-page engraving "The Empress of the French"; Royal and Imperial Marriages in France; poem "Le Champ d'Asile" by H. Spicer (with a short introduction, which begins: "The Champ d'Asile was a wretched swamp in Texas, where a colony of old officers of the Empire took refuge"); Norton's Patent Indicators of Numbers and Distances; full-page engraving "The Marriage Ceremony in Notre Dame"; The Trousseau of the Empress; The Imperial State Carriage; Closeburn; Literature; advertisements; full-page engraving "The Civil Marriage of the Emperor in the Salle des Marechaux, at the Tuileries.".

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue numbers 630 and 631 containing pages 521-552; previously disbound from bound volume; both fold-out engravings detached but present and show periodic short closed tears along right edge (to blank margins only); last few pages each show a tiny corner chip to upper left corner; 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 Condition of the Multitude; Foreign and Colonial News - including Russia and Turkey - Occupation of the Danubian Principalities; Imperial Parliament - including Government of India Bill; The Search for Sir John Franklin; Launch of the "Croesus"; Destruction of the Imperial Theatre, Moscow, By Fire; The Court; The Royal Christening; double-page fold-out engraving "The Camp at Chobham - Troops Passing in Review Before Her Majesty"; Music; The Theatres; Table-Turning (lengthy letter from Professor M. Faraday); Metropolitan News; Summary of the New Cab Law; National Sports; Naval and Military Intelligence; Chess; Epitome of News - Foreign and Domestic; The Architectural Museum; Provincial Intelligence; Monetary Transactions of the Week; The Markets; The London Gazette; The Excavations at Cuma; advertisements; lead article (Issue No. 631) The English and French Camps; The Fejervary Archaeological Collection; Russia and Turkey - The Danubian Principalities; The French Camp at Helfaut; The Chasseurs de Vincennes (with numerous engravings); Waterspout in Berkshire; An Account of the Wonderful Escape of the Barque "Adelaide" From Being Totally Destroyed by Fire - By Edward W. S. Driffield, Passenger; The Camp at Chobham (with double-page fold-out engraving "Her Majesty, Royal Visitors, and Staff, at the Camp at Chobham"; "Plan of the Camp on Chobham Common"; five other engravings); Paris Fashions for July; The French Commission on the Great Exhibition of 1851; Literature (book reviews); Her Majesty's Visit to the Camp (The Camp at Chobham, with two engravings).

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue numbers 645 and 646 containing pages 241-276 plus unpaginated advertisements; previously disbound from bound volume; in three detached sections, all present; two fold-out engravings detached but present; the lightest of age-spots and 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 What London Requires for the Prevention of Cholera; The Channel Fleet at Queenstown; Foreign and Colonial News; Obituary of Eminent Persons; New Orleans - The Yellow Fever; Public Conveyances in Paris; The Future Government of India; Boar-Hunting in the East Indies; Literature (book reviews); The British and French Fleets in Besika Bay; The Golden Horn and the Falls of the "Sweet Waters of Europe"; The Eastern Question; Lord John Russell at Greenock; lengthy poem "The Mowers" ("An Anticipation of the Cholera"); Chess; The Theatres; Music; The Gloucester Musical Festival; Opening of the New Swansea Grammar-School; The English Protestant Church at Geneva; Somersetshire Archaeological Society; Epitome of News - Foreign and Domestic; advertisements; Rise and Progress of the Chinese Rebellion (with half-page Map of China); Metropolitan News - including Health of London; National Sports; Postscript - including Threatening Aspect of the Eastern Question, and lengthy one-paragraph Working of the Fugitive Slave Law in the United States; The Cholera; The Court; Provincial Intelligence; Monetary Transactions of the Week; The Markets; The London Gazette; advertisements; lead article (Issue No. 646) The Eastern Crisis - The Condition, Moral, Social and Political, of the Turks in Europe; lengthy Notes of a Visit to Constantinople; Sketch of the History of the Ottoman Empire, From the End of the Seventeenth Century to the Present Time; double-page fold-out engraving "Panoramic View of Constantinople, From the Tower of Galata" Drawn by Birket Foster; General View of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire; Viscount Stratford-de-Redcliffe, G.C.B.; The Summer Palace of the British Embassy at Therapia.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue numbers 659 and 660 containing pages 549-588; previously disbound from bound volume; the lightest of age-spots and 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 Lord Palmerston, The Ministry, and The War in the East; Monument to Schwarz, at Freiburg; Foreign and Colonial News - including lengthy The War in the East; The Late Queen of Portugal [Donna Maria, Queen of Portugal]; The "Dunbar," East Indiaman; The Turkey; Captain Ludlow; Mademoiselle Georges, of the Theatre Francais; The Court; Epitome of News - Foreign and Domestic; Obituary of Eminent Persons; The Emperor of Russia, in His Droshky (Sledge), at St. Petersburg; The Battle of Oltenitza; Metropolitan News; A Merry Christmas!; Christmas Entertainments; Music; Christmas Books; Town and Table-Talk on Literature, Art, &c.; Restoration of the Paintings in the Dome of St. Paul's (with eight engravings to one page, and two-third-page engraving); Chess; Monetary Transactions of the Week; The Markets; The London Gazette; advertisements; Christmas in France Supplement - including front cover engraving "Midnight Mass at the Madeleine, Paris"; Christmas in Paris, by M. Charton; Christmas in the Provinces, by M. Charton; The Stones of Plouhinec, A Christmas Legend, by Emile Souvestre; Christmas and the Carnival, by M. H. Marie Martin; Paris on New Year's Morning; New Year's Gifts in a Working Man's Family, by Emile Souvestre (with full-page engraving); full-page engraving "Serenade at the Tuileries on New Year's Eve"; two poems by Pierre Dupont - "Envoi a Gavarni" and "La Chanson du Jour de L'an"; The Sonneurs or Waits of Brittany by Emile Souvestre; The Bonbon Trade in Paris on New-Year's-Day; Issue No. 660 - including lovely front-page engraving "A Christmas Picture"; Christmas Games for Evening Parties (The Lottery, or Tombola; Get Out of That; The Lottery of Advice; The Shoemaker's Shop; The Magic Wand; Jack's Alive; The Health of Cardinal Puff; The Cock and Bull Story; The Philharmonic Concert; The Doctor; The Lovers' Exercise; Tuning the Organ; It Was I; The Prussian Soldier; The Learned Pig; The Deaf Man); poem "The Village Waits" by Mrs. T.K. Hervey; poem "Snowballing" by Edmund H. Yates; Princess Ilse, A Christmas Tale of the Hartz Mountains (translated from the German); Going to the Pantomime - With an Illustration by Leech; The Goose Clubs of London - With an Illustration by Phiz; A London Market on Christmas Eve - With an Illustration by G. Dodgson; A Night With the Waits; or, Making the Most of It - With an Illustration by W. G. Hine; Christmas at the Diggings ("Communicated by the Author of 'The Three Colonies of Australia'" - Molly Dibbs to Miss Jane Scrubber); musical score "Cold Christmas? No!" with music composed by Sir Henry R. Bishop, and poetry by Charles Mackay; Christmas-Eve at an Old Farm-House, by Edmund Ollier; delightful poem "Owed to the Christmas Tree" by Alfred Crowquill; full-page engraving to rear cover "A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR" ("The Christmas Tree, As Seen by the Father of a Family").