The Illustrated London News (Double Two Numbers Complete Issue: Vol. XXI Nos. 574 & 575, August 21, 1852) With Lead Article "Emigration and The Gold Fever"

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

Verlag: Herbert Ingram, 1852

Beschreibung

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). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 006811

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Illustrated London News (Double Two ...

Verlag: Herbert Ingram

Erscheinungsdatum: 1852

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition