Illustrated London News, August 13th 1853.

This copy has 10 pages, 20 sides, it was taken from a Bound Volume and therefore has the Binding Holes showing. Spine has been repaired with Tape, and bottom margin on Back Page has a Piece missing. Copy has been Priced accordingly.

Front page shows an Article called " How Wars are got up In India " and in Europe. Also a Engraving of the Refreshment-Room at the House of Parliament.

Articles include,-

                               The House of Commons Refreshment Rooms.

                                 London Central Terminus Railway Station.

                            Literary Miscellanies.- No3.  A Chapter on Cats.

                                         A Song of the Eastern Traveller.

                                  Inauguration of the New York Exhibition.

Full page Engraving showing " Inauguration of the New York Crystal Palace. - Platform in the North Nave. - From a Daguerreo type.

                               The New Grammar School at Colchester.

                  Bazaar at Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight. With Engraving.

                                                     Lord Marcus Hill.

                                                  Imperial Parliament.

                                                    Russia and Turkey.

                                                           The Court

                             The Theatres - Royal Italian Opera, Adelphi, 

                                 Epitome of New. -Foreign and Domestic.

Chess Talk, - with Problem No 497. and a Match between Messrs. Brien and Forshall, of Oxford.

                                      The Chinese Bible in English Letters.

     Jubilee of the British and Foreign Bible Society. - The Carnarvon Auxiliary.

          Celebration of the 79th Birthday of Lord Kenyon. - With Engraving.

                       Additions to the Menagerie of the Zoological Society.
                                    The Bubale Antelope, and Flamingoes. 

                                                          Literature.    

                                            The Art-Union Exhibition.          

                                   The New Cab Laws and Regulations.        

               Route of the Austrailian Direct Steam Navigation Company.

                        Commencement of the Portsmouth Railway.

                          Map Showing the Direct Route to Australia.      

                                               Provincial Intelligence.    

                                           Foreign and Colonial News.    

                                  The Great Naval Review at Spithead.       

                                                 Imperial Parliament.

                                               Church, Universities, &c.

                                               The Camp at Cobham.

                                                  Metropolitan News.

                                     Monetary Transactions of the Week.

                                                          The Markets.

                            Extraordinary Trial and Result. Smyth versus Smyth.

                                      Bankrupts, Marriages, Births, Deaths.