The Illustrated London News (Selections from The Illustrated London News).

Folio (16" x 11 1/2") laminated mint green colored boards, illustrated. Binding with some chips and wear at extremities, small bookplate on front pastedown, endpaper torn, a couple of other pages with minor tears, not collated, but a couple of issues with a page missing, generally the contents seem complete), slight aging; otherwise very good. This is a collection of the Illustrated London News that was probably used to promote subscriptions. The date on the tile page indicates 1852, but the actual issues seem to run from December 7, 1844 to July 5, 1845. This volume contains about twenty issues, during that period, but does not include every issue. In some of these promotional collections, some issues are reprinted, but the reprints are from 1852. A couple of pages are missing, but the issues seem mostly complete. This volume was put out about ten years after the Illustrated London News began publication in May 1842. It contains some very interesting news and illustrations, including an illustration of an 'electric telegraph' in the April12, 1845 issue, a very young Queen Victoria and Prince Albert engraving at a costume ball in the June 7, 1845 issue, and a tennis match in the February 1, 1845 issue.