Original Victorian Antique Newspaper THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS Dated 1866 Aldershot QUEEN VICTORIA Stuart Mill MP FARNHAM SURREY Millwall Shipyard Countess Percy COXSIDE PLYMOUTH FIRE Karachi IndiaE Plus much more; see main description for detailed content and condition.

Victorian Newspaper THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS Dated 1866 Aldershot QUEEN VICTORIA Stuart Mill MP FARNHAM SURREY Millwall Shipyard Countess Percy COXSIDE PLYMOUTH FIRE Karachi India

Original Weekly Issue

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

Aldershot: Queen Victoria Reviewing the Troops at The Barracks

Mr John Stuart Mill MP.

Farnham in Surrey: The Townhall and Corn Exchange.

Kurrachee in India; Frere hall Erected in Honour of Governor Sir Bartle Frere - info. Karachi

Cherry Ripe: From a painting by L. T. Peele - a little girl sitting beneath a tree with a basket of cherries.

Coxside Plymouth: The Fire at The Patent Candle Factory.

Millwall Shipyard, London - Countess Percy Naming the New Ironclad Ship "Northumberland".

Train Engine with a Snowplough, Plunging at high Speed into a Wreath of Snow, On Dalwhinnie Moor on the Inverness and Perth Junction of the Highland Railway - From a Sketch by Mr Hugh Mackenzie an Engineer.

The Turkish Iron Clad Frigate Sultan Mahmoud in reive a Heavy Sea - ship in a storm

Master of Trinity College Cambridge - The Late Rev. Dr Whewell.

Christ Church Meadows at Oxford - The Two Mile Race of the Oxford and Cambridge Athletic Sports.

The Grand Military Gold Cup for the Warwick Steeplechase - engraving of the cup


The Campaign in India - Inside the Walls of the Fortified Palace of Kirwee.

A View of Calpee. c.keenlyside.

Full page from "Sketches Taken on the Spot by an Officer of General Whitlock's Force

Chess Problem by Mr I. A. Graves of Brooklyn.

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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:

Foreign and Colonial Intelligence:

France - with mention of The Corps Legislatif - M. Calley de St Paul - M. Fould - M. Rouher - M. Emile Ollivier - Count Goltz German Ambassador - M. Guizot - M. Saint Girardin - M. Patin - M. Emile Augier 's New Comedy - General Yusuf Dies.

Austria - with mention of the Hungarian Diet (parliament) and M. Deak - Count Mensdorff.

The United States of America - with mention of President Johnson - the Freedman Bureau Bill - Mr Woodbridge - Mr Wilson - Open Air fenian Mass Meeting at City Hall Brooklyn - Fenian Mass Meeting at Mahony's Auspices at Jones's Wood, New York - Captain MCafferty.

Jamaica - with mention of Attorney General - Mr Justice Kerr - Dr Fiddes - Mr T. W. Jackson - Mr Eyre - M. miel - Major O'Connor - Commander Brand - Mr Gordon - Provost Marshal Ramsay.

Australia - with mention of Mr Cardwell - The Lower Chamber or Legislative Assembly - Mr Francis Commissioner of Customs - Mr Michie Minister of Justice - Mr Verdon Treasurer - Sir Charles Darling - Explorer Leichardt - Dr Murray - Mr M'Intyre - Coopers Creek - The Drought - Race Meeting at Flemington Course - Cricket Matchbetween Victoria v New South Wales.

Births Marriages and Deaths.

Illustrated London New Editorial with mention of The Reform Bill - Mr Disraeli - Earl Grosvenor - Mr Lowe - Mr Horsman - Sir William Hutt - Earl of Derby.

The Markets - Prices of Wheat - Linseed - Bread - Tallow - Oils, Linseed, Rape, Coconut etc - Spirits - Hay and Straw - Coals, Newcastle, Sunderland - Hops - Meat and Offal.

The London Gazette - Bankrupts.

The Great Fire at Plymouth.

Three pages of adverts.

The Late Rev. Dr Whewell ...born at Lancaster, educated at the Free Grammar School of Lancaster and Heversham Grammar ... etc.

The Royal Academy. Loght.

Current Literature.

Music.

the Theatres.

The New Reform Bill.

Obituary - The Ven. Archdeacon Robert Wilson Evans BD Vicar of Heversham, Westmorland - - - Captain John Joseph Corrigan 3rd Dragoon Guards died at Melbourne - - - Mrs Louisa Lloyd nee Harvey of Aston Hall, Shropshire, and Rolls Park, Essex.


Wills and Bequests:

Sir Francis Sykes of Isenhurst, Sussex.

Oliver Farrer Esq of 66 Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Miss Maria Renton Tufnell of 14 Raby Place, Bath.


Royal Institution Lectures:

Professor Frankland on Non Metallic Elements.

Mister Balfour Stewart FRS Ethereal on Medium Pervading Space.

Rev. George Henslow FLS on Structural and Ststematic Botany.

Trial at Turin of M. Vagnali - Priest Named Marinelli - Berdoati - M. Martina in the Forgery of Will of The Marquis of Villa Hermosa of Genoa. 2403

 


CONDITION /DIMENSIONS

The four digit number in brackets in title is for my ref only. Nine pages (18sides). It measures 365 x 260 mm (14.25 x 10.25 “).The spine is loose with binding witness marks, some pages are loose. There is some age yellowing and 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 are three pages missing so if you are looking for something in particular in these pages PLEASE ASK. The process of the page numbering in The Illustrated London News issues are applied in a yearly sequence and therefore do not start at number 1.  This item will be packaged in a tube unless otherwise requested.

The list above describes 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. 

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