The Illustrated London News - Jan to June 1874

Volume of The Illustrated London News - Jan to June 1874

620 pages - Ex Library with all the usual labels and stamps

Condition - Hardcover has lots of wear and tear.  Binding fairly tight.  Internally pages have lots of wear and small tears, some loose pages, foxing.  Cannot guarantee all pages are in volume.  For more information and photos please contact us. 

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Too much content to list it all, here is a sample.

The War on the Gold Coast - articles and engravings (many pages)
Theatre Reviews
News from Home and Abroad
Obituaries
Law and Politics
Royal News
The Ashantee War (many pages)
Article and engraving - The Late Professor Agassiz
Double page engraving - The Christmas Market, Berlin
Article and full page engraving - A Japanese Dinner Party
Double page engraving "Homeless" by H.B. Roberts
Engraving - H.M. Iron Clad Ram "Rupert"
Engravings - The Christmas Pantomimes
Double page of engravings - Voyage to the Gold Coast of Africa
Double page engravings "Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home" from the painting by Edwin Landseer, R.A.
Full page of engravings - Christmas at Nazareth House, Hammersmith
Full page of sketches in the Clerkenwell House of Correction
Full page engraving - The Tichborne Trial:  A Scene in Court
Engravings - The Yarkund Mission
Engravings - The Famine in Bengal
Article and engravings - Waterworks Festival at Caracas
Full page of sketches from St. Petersburg
Engraving - Burning of Messrs. A and P Tod's Flour Mills, Leith
Double page engraving - "In the Enemy's Country" by G B Goddard
Article and engraving - The Reredos at Exeter
Article and engraving - The Channel Fleet Regatta at Vido
Full page engraving - The arrival of the Prince and Princess of Wales at St Petersburg for the wedding of the Duke of Edinburgh
Double page engraving - The Tichborne Trial
Portrait engraving - The late Dr Livingstone
Engravings - Marriage festivities for the Duke of Edinburgh
Double page engraving - "High Life" from a painting by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A.
Full page engraving - Blessing the Neva at St Petersburg
Engraving - The Funeral of Count Berg at St Petersburg
Double page engraving - The Royal Marriage at St Petersburg:  The Greek Ceremony, in the Imperial Chapel of the Winter Palace
Full page engraving - The Right Hon W E Gladstone, M.P.
Article and engraving - Madame Parepa-Rosa
Double page engraving:  The Royal Marriage at St Petersburg:  The English Ceremony, in the Alexander Hall of the Winter Palace
Full page engraving - The Right Hon Benjamin Disraeli
Full page engraving - "The Valentine" by W Hunt
Full page of sketches in Moscow
Double page engraving - "Low Life" from a painting by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A.
Article and sketches - Metropolitan Borough's Election Sketches
Full page engraving - The Church of the Assumption, Moscow
Full page of engravings and article - The Burning of the Pantechnicon
Double page engraving - The Ashantee War - Invalids embarking at Cape Coast Castle
Engravings - The Royal Marriage in St Petersburg (many pages)
Full page engraving - Arrival of the Emperor of Austria at St Petersburg
Portrait engraving - The late M Michelet, French Historian
Full page of sketches in Carthagena after the Siege
Double page engraving - "Chasse au Renard" by Guillaume Regamey
Full page of engravings - The End of the Tichborne Trial
Double page engraving - The Royal Marriage:  The First Sight of England by W B Gardner
Engraving - H.M.S. "Duncan", Flagship at Sheerness
Engraving - Arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh at Gravesend
Double page engraving - The Ashantee War:  Sir Garnet Wolseley receiving News from the Front
Supplement = Arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh in England (many pages)
Double page engraving - The Burning of Coomassie
Double page engraving - The Royal Entry into London:  Sailors at the Admiralty Saluting
Full page engraving - The Ashantee War: The Return Home - Arrival of the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers at Portsmouth
Full page portrait engraving - The Marquis of Lorne
Full page portrait engraving - H.R.H. The Princess Louise
Full page portrait engraving - Major-General Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley, K.C.M.G., C.B.
Engraving - Monument to the 42nd Highlanders in Dunkeld Cathedral
Engravings and article - The Civil in Spain
Engraving - Launch of the "Faraday", Telegraph Cable Ship
Double page engraving - Sir Garnet Wolseley entering Coomassie
Full page of sketches in St Petersburg
Engraving - Launch of the German Frigate "Kaiser" at Poplar
Double page engraving - "The Gladiators - "Polloce Verso" by M Gerome
2 x pages of sketches at the Volunteer Sham Fight on Easter Monday
2 pages of portrait engravings of The New Cabinet
Double page engraving - "With all their Banners bravely spread, and all their Armour flashing high" from a painting by Sir John Gilbert
Engraving - Dr. Livingstone's remains at Southampton: Procession to the Railway Station
Article and engraving - The Aerophore
Double page engraving - Le Bac Japonais - from a painting by P M Lenoir
Full page engraving - Funeral of Dr. Livingstone in Westminster Abbey
Engraving - The new Inman Steamer "City of Richmond"
Full page engraving - The Queen at Portsmouth inspecting the Naval Brigade of the Ashantee War
Fine Art Supplement 
Double page engraving - Albert Durer sketching the Panorama of Antwerp in 1520 (from a painting by John Neuhuys)
Full page of engravings - The Roman Coliseum of Thysdrus, at El Djem, near Tunis
Portrait engraving - The late Wilhelm Von Kaulbach
Engraving - The Eastern Monarch, Emigrant Ship for New Zealand
Engraving - The French Transatlantic Company's Steamship "Amerique" towed into Plymouth
Portrait engraving - The late Mr Owen Jones, Decorative Artist
Double page engraving - Ball at the Mansion House, given by the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress to the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh
Full page of sketches - The Civil War in Spain: Carlist Sketches from Navarre
Portrait engraving - The late Porfessor Phillips
2 x pages of engravings - The Mission to Yarkund and Kashgar
Full page of sketches at the Mule and Donkey Show at the Crystal Palace
Full page engraving - His Imperial Majesty Alexander II, Czar of Russia
Engraving - The Czar's visit to England:  The Emperor at Dover
Full page of engravings - The visit of the Emperor of Russia to the City of London
Engraving - Ashantee Golden Ornaments and Trophies
Double page engraving - The Emperor of Russia and Royal Party at the Crystal Palace
Full page of engravings - The Ocean Depth exploring Voyage - H.M.S. Challenger at Kerguelen Land
Double page engraving - The Emperor of Russia at the Aldershot Review
Engraving - The Prince of Wales at the Royal Thames Yacht Club Match
Full page of engravings - The Yellowstone Lake region of North America
Full page engraving - Tolosa, Basque Province of Spain
Double page engraving - Procession of the Corpus Christi Festival from the Church of St. Stephen, Vienna
Engraving - The Screw Steamer "Durham", Australian Liner
Double page engraving - Execution of Spanish Patriots in the Reign of the Emperor Charles V (from a painting by A Gisbert)
Full page engraving - Fettes College, Edinburgh
Full page of engravings - Messrs. Phelps, Mathews, and Toole in "John Bull", at the Gaiety Theatre
Engraving - H.M.S. "Raleigh"
Double page engraving - Rear Guard protecting a Convoy (from a painting by Bellange)
Full page engraving - Dublin University Athletic Club Sports in College Park
Engraving - The Prince of Wales's Park Cob, "Bob"
Engraving - Mr W Armstong's Hunter, "Cashier"
Full page engraving - Opening Match of the Polo Club, Hurlingham
Full page engraving - Scene from "Il Talismano", at Drury Lane Theatre
Full page of engravings - Birthplace and Relics of John Bunyan
Article - The Bunyan Festival at Bedford
Engraving - The Assault on M Gambetta by M. de Sainte-Croix at the Sainte Lazare Station, Paris
Double page engraving - The Decisive Charge of the Life Guards at the Battle of Waterloo (from the painting by Luke Clennel)
Leaves from a Sketchbook - Cornwall
Sketches from Palestine