Illustrated London News. 100 loose leaves illustrated with superb original wood-engravings. 1850s

A total of over 100 loose leaves (one leaf = 2 pages), folio, illustrated with superb wood-engravings.

Disbound. Generally, in good condition, but with occasional foxing, marginal tears, off-setting.

Many of these illustrations would frame well.

Contents too varied to catalogue in full. A brief sampling:

Statue of the Duke of Wellington; Ceylon; Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race; Steam ships; Sleighing in New York; Winning horse at Epsom Spring Meeting; Ascent of Mt Blanc; Paris Fashions for April 1852; His Highness Abbas Pacha, Viceroy of Egypt; Railway works in the Harbour of Alexandria; American Clipper Ship, 'Witch of the Wave'; Capture of the Robber Chief, Rundheer Singh, of Syfabad, in Oude; Straits of Magellan; Opening of the Northumberland Dock at Newcastle-on-Tyne ...