Original Victorian Antique Newspaper THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS Dated 1871: Worship Street Gasworks RED RIVER WOLESLEY CANADA EXPEDITION John Burgoyne NEW REFORM CLUB MANCHESTER Great Eastern Railway Extension Broad Street DEMOLITION CITY OF LONDON THEATRE. Plus much more; see main description for detailed content and condition.

Victorian Newspaper THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS Date 1871 Worship Street Gasworks RED RIVER WOLSELEY CANADA EXPEDITION Malawin Bridge  John Burgoyne NEW REFORM CLUB MANCHESTER Great Eastern Railway Extension Broad Street DEMOLITION CITY OF LONDON THEATRE

   
The Illustrated London News

Original Weekly Issue


This first part of the description features a list of images i.e. prints from engravings, sketches, drawings etc (these sometimes have descriptive articles but not always). They include:

Funeral of Sir John Burgoyne in St Peters Church, the Tower – full front page

Funeral of Sir John Burgoyne, The Procession Passing Traitors Gate – full page

The late Mr R Young Sheriff of LondonLoght.

The Late Alderman Sir F. G. Moon

Canada and The Red River Expedition: 60th Rifles Camp near Shebandowan – near half page. Info.aka Wolseley Expedition

The Red River Expedition - 2 half page or near half page illustrations entitled: Crossing a Portage – Camp at Malawin Bridge

The New Reform Club, Manchester – half page

The Burn of the Vat, Ballater Deeside – half page

The Late Sir Roderick Murchison – full page

Page devoted to Demolition for the Great Eastern Railway Extension to Broad Street, 3 illustrations entitled: Destruction of the City of London Theatre – Great Eastern Railway Site of the New City Station Broad Street – Ruins Of the Worship Street Gasworks

Scene from Rebecca At Drury Lane Theatre (drawn by DH Friston) rieve – half page

Koldinghus Castle, Denmark.

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This second part of the description features items of news articles etc but have no images associated with the subject matter unless listed above. They include:

The Romance of HMS Megaera

Funeral of Sir John Burgoyne

Foreign and colonial news, France – the arrival of Prince Napoleon in Corsica

news from America (a paragraph) mentioning the 1st narrow gauge railway the Denver and the Rio Grande, Mr Sec Boutwell, Schooner Horton, Mr Henry Howard, the International yacht races, mentioning the Livonia, Sappho, Dauntless


National Sports, mentioning the Houghton week, Newmarket Heath, Harry Bassett, The Tichborne Hounds, Mr W Rigden, Mr William Seamour, coursing, Lurgan, the Brownlow cup


Late Mr R Young MP for Cambridgeshire

Late Sir Francis Graham Moon

The Red River Expedition

Fine Arts – oil pictures at the Dudley Gallery (incomplete article)

The Burn of the Vat. c.keenlyside.

Sir Roderick Murchison

Astronomical Occurrences in November

The great Eastern Railway

Law and Police (a small paragraph on each subject) with mentions of: – the Tichborne case – bankruptcy of Mr Herbert Godfrey Munday – Eltham tragedy Reviewed, – William Williams and his wife sentenced to 14 years penal servitude for coinage, John Gomm, sentenced to 5 years for stealing letters, Jeremiah Stevens sentenced to 12 months for robbery – Florence Cowper who styles herself Hon. Mrs Cowper was charged at Marlborough Street with stealing a watch from Police Sgt Fowler – John Teitch charged for reive obtaining 10 shillings from lady Mary Egerton under false pretences – Rev Mr Watson charged with the murder of his wife was committed for trial at Lambeth – Frank and William Kimber of Lindfield were charged assault and robbery of George Miles of Horsted Keynes - Miel - John West charged with ill treating his daughter Martha – A farmer named Bryan in County Meath shot dead in his home


Scene from Rebecca, mentioning Mr Halliday, Miss Nielsen, the Dewhurst

Koldinghus Castle Denmark. 2810

 

CONDITION /DIMENSIONS

Provenance: The Illustrated London News Published 1871. Founded by Herbert Ingram with the first edition of the newspaper appearing on 14 May 1842.

This is an original USED newspaper not a scan and not a later re-print. It measures 365 x 260 mm (14.25 x 10.25 “).The spine is loose with binding witness marks where once bound, some pages are loose. There is some age yellowing with some spotting. Some of the pages may be loose, and have minor cuts tears and blemishes due to their great age - anything more than minor will be mentioned in the main body of the description. The engravings vary in size. 

PLEASE NOTE: I cannot guarantee that the issue is complete 'as published' - but what I have described above IS present. As far as I can tell there is three pages missing, so if you're looking for something in particular in this issue PLEASE ASK. If you require information on size of articles (i.e. number of words), sizes of images, please ask before bidding or buying. There are no colour images unless otherwise stated. The process of the page numbering in The ILN carry on from the previous issue therefore do not start at number 1.

The descriptive text in my listing, details the content in my words and not necessarily what is written on the original page. "Info." in the description is my research, although relevant to the accompanying image or article, is not necessarily in the text. This item will be packaged in a tube and sent Royal Mail Small Parcels; or International Standard Parcel (this is NOT a tracked service so if you require tracking please contact for price).

If the ILN has "Reprint" at the top of front page, it indicates that this days issue completely exceeded the publishers' expectations; that this particular issue had to be reprinted possibly several times on that date.