The Illustrated London News - July to December 1859

Volume of The Illustrated London News - July to December 1859

Condition is good - Wear and tear to hardcover.  Binding Tight.  Internally clean and tidy.  For more information and photos please contact us.  There are NO colour pages in this volume

654 pages - Very heavy 

Contents incl:

1. Article - The French and the Austrians
2. Engraving - Attack on the Church of Magenta
3. Foreign Intelligence (in every issue)
4. Article - The War - Battle of Solferino
5. Literature
6. Small engraving - The late Jacob Bell
7. Article and engraving - Prince Metternich
8. Article and engravings - The Two New Marshals of France: Marshal M'Mahon;  Marshal Saint Jean D;Angely
9. Metropolitan News (in every issue)
10. Court News - Royalty
11. Double page engraving - The Battle of Magenta
12. Parliament News
13. Theatre Reviews
14. Naval and Military
15. Obituaries
16. Law and Court
17. Article and full page engraving - The Floating Derrick
18. Article and engravings - Well Dressing at Tissington, Derbyshire
19. Article - New Coins for the Kingdom of Siam
20. Scientific News
21. Chess
22. Double page engraving - The Great Handel Festival at the Crystal Palace
23. Article - Mr Rarey
24. Article - The late Jacob Bell
25. Engraving - Austrian Lancers passing the Tombs of the Scaligers, Verona (article on another page)
26. Small engraving - The late David Cox
27. Full page engraving - Interior of the Fine Arts Exhibition at the Palace of Industry, Paris
28. Article - Choral Marriage in Westminster Abbey
29. Full page engraving - Choral Marriage of the Rev Arthur Rhynne with Miss Kendall, at Westminster Abbey
30. Full page engraving - General Vinoy receiving his instructions from the Emperor Napoleon at Magenta
31. Full page engraving - A Brigade of French Artillery passing through the Piazza Castello, Turin
32. Article and engraving - A British Squadron in the Strait of Messina
33. Article and engraving - A British Squadron in the Bay of Naples
34. Article and engraving - Landing of the Red Sea Telegraph Cable at Aden
35. Engraving - Horticultural Fete at Tunbridge Wells
36. Full page engraving - Presentation to the Empress-Regen Eugenie of an Austria Flag taken at Magenta
37. Full page engraving - The Turcos and their mode of Fighting
38. Engraving - The Fortifications of Verona
39. Article and engraving - Ancient Crowns of Europe
40. Article and engraving - Charlotte Corday
41. Engraving - Banquet at Constantinople in honour of Queen Victoria's Brithday
42. Double page article and engraving - The Emperors of France and Russia, the King of Sardinia, and Prince Napoleon
43. Full page engraving - The War in Italy - French Cavalry crossing a Tributary of the Adda
44. Full page article and engravings - Opening of the First Railway at the Cape of Good Hope
45. Article and engraving - The Great Thunderstorm in London
46. Article and engraving - Encampment at Woolmer
47. Article - M Jacques Fosse
48. Article and engraving - Opening of the South Devon and Tavistock Railway
49. Engraving - The Edmund Main Colliery, near Barnsley - Sketched from the bank near the Masons Arms
50. Full page article and engraving - The Emperor of the French on the Battlefield of Solferino
51. Article and engraving - Fete at Dunkettle near Cork
52. Article and engraving - Fancy Bazaar held on board the "Monarch" and "Agememnon"
53. Engraving - Prize Cattle from the Royal Agricultural Society Show at Warwick
54. Article and engraving - The late Captain Sinclair, R.N.
55. Full page engraving - The Emperor of Austria
56. Article and engraving - Passage of the Chiese by French Troops
57. Article and engraving - Carpenedolo
58. Article and engraving - The late King of Sweden and Norway
59. Article and engraving - Lord Fermoy
60. Article and engraving - William Henry Bodkin
61. Article and engraving - The Stelvio Pass
62. Article and engraving - Volunteers leaving Rome
63. Full page article and engravings - Exhibition of Fine Arts at Paris
64. Article and engraving - Notre Dame restored - The New Spire
65. Article and engraving - The Short Nosed Seahorse
66. Article - The National Defences
67. Small engraving - Marshal Niel
68. Article and engraving - Mantua
69. Double page article and engraving - The Battle of Solferino: Generals Niel and Vinoy at the Farm of Quagliara
70. Engraving - The Wreck of the Royal Mail Steamship "Paramatta" on the Horseshoe Roof, near Anagado (article on the next page)
71. Article and engraving - Mademoiselle Artot
72. Article and engraving - Contributions of Lint for the French Army
73. Article and engraving - Goodwood Races
74. Article - The road to India by Lower Egypt and the Red Sea
75. Full page engraving - The meeting of the Emperors Napoleon and Francis Joseph at VillaFranca
76. Article and engravings - The Application of Machinery to Sculpture
77. Article and engraving - The arrival of the Emperor Napoleon at St Cloud
78. Engraving - The Peace Conference - Zurich, Switzerland
79. Article - The Windermere Regatta
80. Article and engraving - The Palmhouse, Kew Gardens
81. Full page engraving - Windermere Regatta - The Race for Mr Aufrere's Cup
82. Full page article and engraving - General Vinoy, Commander of the Second Division of the Fourth Corps of the French Army in Italy
83. Full page engraving - Death of Colonel Maleville, at the Battle of Solferino
84. Article and engraving - Mr Charles Kean
85. Article and engraving - Fire at the General Hospital, Jersey
86. Article and engraving - Brigadier General Robert Walpole
87. Article and engraving - The Oatlands Park Hotel, Weybridge
88. Article and engraving - Archery meeting in the Grounds of Crystal Palace
89. Article and engraving - Napoleon and the Great Bodies of the State at the Palace of St Cloud
90. Article and engraving - The Vivandieres of the French Army
91. Engraving - The Grand Square, Perugia
92. Article and engraving - Revolt of the Swiss Troops at Naples
93. Article - The Sovereignty of the Seas
94. Article and engraving - Statue of Marshal Lobau
95. Article and engraving - Hungarian Volunteers for the Austrian Service
96. Article - The Leeds Grammar School
97. Article and engraving - The Bridge of St Peter, Verona
98. Article and engraving - The Piazza Delle Erbe, of Vegetable Market, Verona
99. Article and engraving - Martinsloch, or Martin's Hole, in the Eigher Mountain, one of the Bernese Alps
100. Full page engraving - French Troops crossing the Mincio
101. Engraving - The Leeds new Grammar School, Woodhouse Moor
102. Article and engraving - British and Foreign School Society's new Training College for Mistresses
103. Article and engraving - The Hon W H Seward, of New York
104. Article and engraving - Trieste
105. Article and engraving - New Baths and Washouse, Newcastle on Tyne
106. Engraving - Hall of the Clothworkers' Company, Mincing Lane
107. Engraving - Banqueting Hall of the Clothworkers's Company
108. Article and engraving - Heligoland
109. Full page engraving - The Castle and the Bridge of St Angelo, Rome
110. Full page engraving - Ruins of the Temple of Saturn, Rome
111. Article and engraving - Handel's Monument in Westminster Abbey
112. Article and engraving - St John's Church, Belfast, Diocese of Melbourne, Victoria
113. Article and engraving - Augustin Pajou, The Sculptor
114. Article and engraving - Messrs Puttick and Simpson's new Book Auction Room, Leicester Square
115. Engraving - The Paris Fetes - Statue of Peace at the engrance of the Rue De La Paix
116. Article and engraving - Presentation to the Countess of Shaftesbury at Manchester
117. Article and engraving - Madame Lemmens Sherrington
118. Article and engraving - New Armed Screw Steam Yacht "Immacolata Concezione", built for his Holiness the Pope
119. Article and engraving - The Rrev Mr Waddy, President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference
120. Article and engraving - Opening of the Silloth Dock
121. Full page engraving - The Grand Saloon of the "Great Eastern" Steam Ship
122. Full page engraving - Austrian Prisoners at a Farm at Medolo
123. Article and engraving - Fete at Basford Park
124. Full page engraving - The Fetes at Paris - Fireworks and Illuminations at the Trocadero
125. Article and engraving - Sir Cursetjee Jamsetjee, Bart, of Bombay
126. Article and engraving - The Camp at St Maur
127. Full page engraving - The Triumphal Arch at the Place De La Bastille, representing the Front of Milan Cathedral
128. Article and engraving - Shand and Mason's Steam Fire Engine
129. Article and engraving - The Islington Spa, Clerkenwell
130. Article and engraving - Wreck of the "Alma" in the Red Sea
131. Article and engraving - Master Henri Ketten
132. Article and engraving - Destruction of Walton Bridge
133. Article - Free Trade with France
134. Engraving - The Queen's visit to Jersey - Moonlight view of Mont Orgeuil Castle, with the Royal Squadron lying at Anchor
135. Article and engraving - Main Drainage of the Metropolis - Sectional View of the Tunnels from Wick Lance, near Old Ford, Bow
136. Double page engraving - Entry of the Army of Italy into Paris - The Troops passing through the Boulevard Des Italiens
137. Full page engraving - The Queen's visit to Jersey - Landing of Her Majesty at the Albert Pier, St Helier
138. Article and engraving - Piazza in Perugia
139. Article and engraving - Striking of the "Indian Queen", on an Iceberg in the South Pacific
140. Full page engraving - The Cobden Baquet at Rochdale
141. Full page engraving - The Army of Italy defiling before the Emperor at the Place Vendome
142. Full page engraving - Oriental Joust on the Seine
143. Article - The Paris Fetes
144. Article and engravings - The "Great Eastern"
145. Engraving - Dinner given by the Liberal Electors of Winchester to Mr Bonham Carter, M.P. and Mr George Shaw Lefevre
146. Article and engraving - The Prince Imperial of France
147. Article and engraving - Turco Musicians at the Camp of St Maur
148. Article and engraving - The Paris Fetes - Passage of the Turcos
149. Full page engraving - The Paddle-Engine Room of the "Great Eastern"
150. Full page engraving - Partridge Shooting
151. Article and engraving - The Albert Institution, Blackfriars Road
152. Article and engraving - Sir Charles Nicholson
153. Article and engraving - East Brent Harvest-Home
154. Engraving - The Grand Duke Constantine of Russia and Suite, on the Quarterdeck of the "General-Admiral"
155. Small engraving - Mr George Hammon Walley, M.P.
156. Article - The Great Ship Company and Mr Lever
157. Article and engravings - Derby Racecourse
158. Article and engraving - Mr Thorpe Peed
159. Full page engraving - Banquet to the Chiefs of the ARmy of Italy, in the Salle Des Etats, at the New Louvre
160. Full page engraving - Cattle Show at Halifax
161. Full page engraving - The Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia on Horseback
162. Article and engraving - The David Sassoon Industrial and Reformatory Institution, at Bombay
163. Full page of engravings - Views in the Isle of Wight
164. Full page of engravings - Naval instruction on board H.M.S. "Britannia", Portsmouth
165. Full page engraving - Screw-Engine Room of the "Great Eastern"
166. Article and full page engraving - Brescia, in Upper Italy
167. Article - The "Great Eastern"
168. Engraving - The Scene at Greenwich during the passage of the "Great Eastern" down the Thames
169. Article and engraving - Compasses of the "Great Eastern"
170. Double page engraving - The "Great Eastern" rounding the point opposite Blackwall
171. Full page engraving - Naval Instruction on board H.M.S. The "Britannia", Portsmouth - Lessons in Gunnery
172. Article and engraving - Ballooning at Cremorne
173. Article and engraving - Annual Fete of the Bishop Auckland Floral and Horticultural Society
174. Full page article and engravings - Manners and Customs of the Chinese in 1859
175. Article - Calcutta
176. Article and engravings - Views of the Esplanade, Calcutta, taken from the foot of the Ochterlony Monument
177. Full page engraving - Funeral at Hong Kong
178. Article and engraving - Monkstone Rock Beacon
179. Article and engraving - New Drinking Fountain at Coventry
180. Article and engraving - The Calder Fountains, Belfast
181. Full page engraving - New Patent Slipway in course of being erected at Cronstadt for the Russian Government
182. Engraving - Reception at Hong Kong of the news from Peiho
183. Full page article and engravings - Manners and Customs of the Chinese in Formosa
184. Full page article and engraving - Attack by the Allied Forces on the Chinese Fortifications at the Mouth of the Peiho River
185. Article and engraving - Launch of the Exmouth Lifeboat
186. Article and engraving - The Great Isaacs Lighthouse on the Great Bahama Bank
187. Article and engraving - Gamester, the Winner of the St Leger
188. Full page article and engraving - Isambard Kingdom Brunel
189. Article and engraving - Spreading Flax in the North of Ireland
190. Article and engraving - The Armstrong Gun Works, Newcastle on Tyne
191. Full page engraving - Soiree of the Mechanics' Institute at the Armstrong Gun Works
192. Full page article and engravings - French Agricultural Scenes
193. Small engraving - Nanaimo, the Coaling Station at Vancouver's Island
194. Engraving - Marischal College, Aberdeen
195. Article - The Victoria Bridge over the St Lawrence
196. Article and engraving - St James's Church, Gerrards Cross, Bucks
197. Article and engraving - Beit Mary, in the Lebanon
198. Full page article and engraving - Opening of the Bute East Dock, Cardiff
199. Full page engraving - His Royal Highness the Prince Consort delivering the Inaugural address to the British Association at the New Music Hall, Aberdeen
200. Half page engraving - Banchory House, near Aberdeen, the Seat of A. Thomson, esq
201. Half page engraving - Dunnottar Castle, Kincardineshire
202. Article and engraving - Quin Abbey, near Ennis
203. Article and engraving - Bottomly's Shelf Mills, near Halifax
204. Full page article and engraving - Fate of Sir John Franklin's Expedition - Proceedings of the Yacht "Fox" - Facsimile of a paper found by Captain M'Clintock on Prince of Wales Island
205. Article and engraving - The Screw Steam Yacht "Nora Creina"
206. Article and engraving - The Lower Jetty, Margate
207. Engraving - Wreck of the Jersey Mail Steam-Packet "Express" on the Grunes Houillieres
208. Article and engraving - Presentation of an Official Gold Collar and Badge to the Mayor of Ripon
209. Article and engraving - Bandon Mountain School
210. Full page article and engravings - French Agricultural Scenes
211. Engraving - Offices of the Life Association of Scotland, recently erected in Princes Street, Edinburgh
212. Article and engraving - The Indian Wanderoo Monkey
213. Article and engraving - The "Great Eastern" at Portland
214. Article and engraving - The Hindoo Money Changer
215. Article and engraving - The Sir Jamsetjee Hospital and Grant Medical College at Bombay
216. Article and engraving - Opening of the new Docks at Swansea
217. Full page engraving - The Beach at Brighton
218. Article and engraving - Bread Baking in the Field at Aldershot
219. Article and engraving - Elgin Cathedral
220. Article and engraving - The Race for the Championship of the Thames (Henry Kelly v Robert Chambers)
221. Article and engraving - The Fatal Explosion at Birmingham
222. Article and engraving - The progress of the Breakwater at the Mouth of the River Tyne
223. Article and engraving - Captain M'Clintock
224. Article and engraving - First Interview of Captain M'Clintock with the Esquimaux at Cape Victoria, Boothia Felix
225. Article and engraving - The Pneumatic Fire Detector
226. Article and engraving - Lighting Chamber of the Great Clock, New Palace at Westminster
227. Article and engraving - New Congregational Chapel, South Grove, Highgate
228. Article and engraving - Elizabeth Kerry, 105 Years Old
229. Article - The Old Men's Hospital, Norwich
230. Engraving - Roasting Fifty Six Geese at once for the inmates of the Old Men's Hospital, Norwich
231. Engraving - The Glasgow new Waterworks opened by Her Majesty, outlet of Loch Katrine
232. Article and engraving - The Yacht "Fox" entering Lievely Harbour, Disco, Greenland
233. 2 pages of engravings - The Expedition is search of Sir John Franklin and Relics of the Franklin Expedition
234. Article and engravings - The Great Fire at Halifax, Nova Scotia
235. Article and engraving - The Hop Fair at Reading, held in the Corn Exchange
236. Article - Trial trip of the "Great Eastern"
237. Double page engraving - The Grand Saloon of the "Great Eastern"
238. Article and engraving - The late Sir John Keble Haberfield
239. Article - The Brussels Congress
240. Engraving - The Queen's visit to North Wales - Her Majesty's departure from Penhryn
241. Engraving - Statue of General Neill
242. Full page article and engravings - The "Great Eastern" at Holyhead
243. Double page engraving - The Town and Harbour of Holyhead, with the "Great Eastern" at Anchor, sketchced from the Breakwater
244. Full page engraving - The Queen's visit to North Wales - Penhryn Castle, the Seat of Colonel The Hon Douglas Pennant
245. Full page article and engravings - The Queen's visit to North Wales
246. Article and engraving - The Late Mr Robert Stephenson, M.P.
247. Engraving - The South Foreland Lighthouse, near Dover (article on next page)
248. Article and engraving - The late Rev John Angell James
249. Full page of engravings - The Glasgow Waterworks
250. Full page engraving - Inauguration by Her Majesty of the Glasgow Waterworks by Loch Katrine
251. Article and engraving - Roller Watering Machine used in Paris
252. Article - The Spaniards and the Moors
253. Full page engraving - The Queen entering Bangor
254. Article - The Wreck of the "Royal Charter" and loss of about Four Hundred Lives
255. Full page engraving - Departure of Her Majesty from Bangor
256. Article - General Fabre Geffrard, President of Hayti (engraving on next page)
257. Article and engraving - Marriage of the Hon Georgiana H E Tracey and Captain Maule
258. Article and engraving - Madame Rieder Schlumberger
259. Full page of engravings - The Funeral of the late Mr Robert Stephenson, in the Nave of Westminster Abbey
260. Full page engraving - The Capitol at Washington, United States (article on next page)
261. Engraving - The Kiang, or Wild Horse of Thibet
262. Article and engraving - Birthplace of Sir John Franklin at Spilsby, Lincolnshire
263. Engraving - Frewen's Hall, Oxford
264. Article - Laying the Foundation Stone of a Hall for Odd Fellows at Wellington, New Zealand
265. Engraving - Proposed Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, Canada
266. Double page of engravings - New Museum, Oxford
267. Article and engraving - The Oxford Gymnasium
268. Article and engraving - Newstead Abbey
269. Full page article and engravings - Chinese Manners and Customs in Formosa
270. Full page engraving - The Wreck of teh "Royal Charter" on the Coast of Anglesea, near Moelfre, five miles from Point Lynas Lighthouse
271. Full page engraving - Banquet at the Hotel Du Gouvernement, Fort De France, Martinique, on the Occasion of the Inauguration of a Statue to the Empress Josephine
272. Full page engraving - Inauguration of the Statue to the Empress Josephine at Fort De France, Martinique
273. Engraving - The New University College, Toronto, Upper Canada
274. Engraving - The New Britannia Pier broken by a Schooner having been driven through the late storm at Great Yarmouth
275. Article and engraving - The late Earl Waldegrave
276. Article and engraving - Dr Louis Spohr
277. Article and engraving - St Michael's Church, Cornhill
278. Article and engraving - Tunbridge School Chapel
279. Article and engraving - The Peninsular and Oriental Company's New Steamship "Delta"
280. Engraving - The New Lord Mayor, The Right Hon John Carter
281. Article and engraving - The London Rifle Brigade taking the oath of allegiance in the Egyptian Hall, Mansion House
282. Article and engraving - The Voyage of the "Great Eastern" from Holyhead to Southampton
283. Article and engraving - Sutton Coldfield New Town Hall
284. Article and engravings - The Recent Gales
285. Engraving - The Schiller Festival at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham
286. Full page article and engravings - Literature
287. Article and engravings - The War in Morocco
288. Full page engraving - The War between Spain and Morocco - Costumes of the Spanish Army
289. Article and engraving - Tangier
290. Full page article and engraving - The Lord Mayor's Show - Triumphal Arch in Cornhill
291. Article and engraving - Mr Santley of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden
292. Full page article and engraving - Ward's New Fresco in the Corridor of the House of Commons - "Alice Lisle"
293. Full page engraving - Sports in America - Shooting Turkeys for Thanksgiving Day
294. Article - The New Naval Reserve
295. Engraving - Bust of Schiller, by Dannekar, in the Library of Weimar
296. Article and full page engraving - The Schiller Festival at St George's Hall, Liverpool
297. Article and engraving - Rescue of the Crew of the Steamer "Shamrock" of Dublin, by the Lowestoft Lifeboat
298. Article and engraving - Joseph Rodgers, Seaman of the "Royal Charter"
299. Full page of engravings - The Schiller Festival at Paris and Berlin
300. Full page engraving - Monument to Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K.B. on Queenston Heights, Upper Canada
301. Article and engraving - Launch of H.M.S. "Victoria" at Portsmouth
302. Article and engraving - Clarkson Stanfield, R.A.
303. Article and engraving - The new Fresco at The Royal Exchange
304. Article and engraving - Marlborough House, The Town Residence of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
305. Full page engraving - Birdseye View of Venice
306. Article and engraving - The Earl of Elgin, G.C.B., K.T., Postmaster-General Lord Rector of Glasgow University
307. Article and engravings - The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland laying the First Stone of a new Bridge at Cork
308. Full page article and engraving - Schillers's "Song of the Bell"
309. Article and engraving - The Calliope
310. Article and engraving - Evan's New English Harmonium
311. Article and engraving - The Earl of Elgin
312. Article and engraving - Destruction of a part of the South Devon Railway
313. Article and engraving - Opening of the First Section of the Cork and Youghal Railway
314. Engraving - Fancy Bazaar held in the Teatro Colon, Buenos Ayres, in aid of a British Hospital and Almshouses
315. Full page and engraving - Algesiras
316. Full page engraving - Laying the Foundation Stone of Schiller's Statue
317. Full page engraving - Inspection of the Hon Artillery Company at their Parade Ground, Finsbury
318. Article - The Liverpool Innocents
319. Small engravings - John Phillip, R.A.;  Sydney Smirke, R.A.
320. Article and engraving - Sanitorium for Consumption, Bournemouth
321. Article and engraving - Paris Demolitions, The Hotel Dieu
322. Double page article and engravings - Paris Demolitions - The Barriers of Paris
323. Full page engraving - The French Expedition against Morocco - Fight with the Beni-Snassen
324. Article and engravings - The City of Morocco and Cadiz
325. Full page engraving - Model Farm Buildings and Workshops at Longleat, Wiltshire, The Seat of the Marquis of Bath
326. Full page of engravings - The Birmingham Poultry Show
327. Full page of engravings - Smithfield Club Cattle Show (article on next page)
328. Article and engraving - Leamington National Schools
329. Article and engraving - The Beehive Public House, Grantham
330. Article and engraving - New British Post Office at Constantinople
331. Article and engravings - Tangier
332. Full page engraving - Snake Charmers, inhabitants of the Riff Coast, Morocco
333. Full page of engravings - Naval Instruction on board "The Britannia" Training Ship
334. Half page engraving - Soiree given to Mr Bright in the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
335. Half page engraving - Conversazione of the Great Western Railway Literary Society at the Paddington Terminus
336. Article and engraving - The Gold Bedstead presented to Queen Victoria by the Maharajah of Cashmere
337. Article and engraving - The Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
338. Full page engraving - Laying the Foundation Stone of the Victoria Bridge, Severn Valley Railway
339. Engraving - The New Screw Steam Ship "Thunder"
340. Engravings - Testing Chain Cables in the Test House, Woolwich Dockyard
341. Full page engraving - Christmas in the Baronial Hall in the Olden Time
342. Double page engraving - Christmas Masque at the Court of Charles II
343. Full page engraving - Utopian Christmas by Miss Florence Claxton
344. Article and engraving - The late James Ward, R.A.
345. Christmas Supplement
346. Article and engraving - Residences of the late Washington Irving
347. Article and engraving - The Congregational Chapel, Newport
348. Article and engraving - Prince Alfred at Athens
349. Article and engraving - Congregational Church at Saltaire
350. Article and engraving - Highbuty New Park College
351. 2 pages of engravings - Christmas Pantomimes and Burlesques
352. Full page engraving - The Opening Ball in the New Assembly Rooms, Manchester
353. Engraving - The Great Telegraphing Room at the New Offices of the Electric and International Telegraph Company, Moorgate Street
354. Article and engraving - The Rev Thomas Dale
355. Article and engraving - The Royal Victoria Patriotic Fund Asylum Wandsworth
356. Full page engraving - Skating on the Serpentine by Torchlight
357.