Item #202791 THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, VOLUME LXXXII: January-June 1883

THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, VOLUME LXXXII: January-June 1883

London: George C. Leighton, 1883. Hardcover. 668p. Ex-library. An oversize hardcover book with a black cloth spine, leather corners, and green cloth boards. There is scratching on the covers, heavy wear on the corners, and some library stamps inside. The book has been rebound and the binding is subsequently very tight. Pages 51-54 are present, but DETACHED from the spine. All other pages are present and securely attached. A folding color plate of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, is badly torn and has been crudely but mostly repaired with tape. A black and white folding plate of an explosion at government offices in Charles Street, Winchester, has ripped in half but has similarly been repaired with tape that is also now ripping. Page 331 has a minor tear towards the spine. Another color folding plate of a painting by John Sturgess has prominent folds, but is in acceptable condition. Item #202791

Volume 82 of THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, containing issues from January to June of 1883. Includes reporting on the death of Leon Gambetta, artifacts of Babylon, Egypt, Rome and Pompeii, an explosion in Winchester, the Brighton Review, the enthronement of a new archbishop at Canterbury Cathedral, the entombment of Raphael in the Pantheon, the Phoenix Park murder trials, the International Fisheries Exhibition, the coronation of Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna of Russia, and more. Includes engravings of Gambetta, St. Paul's Cathedral, the wedding ceremony of Prince Heinrich of Prussia and Princess Irene of Hesse, the political career of Gladstone, Earl Spencer of Ireland, the inter-university boat race between Oxford and Cambridge, the Canterbury Cathedral, the design and placement of a Duke Wellington statue, the Christchurch Cathedral, various artists of the time, and the opening of the New York and Brooklyn Suspension Bridge, among others. Measures approximately 16'' x 12''.

Price: $125.00

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