The Illustrated London News (Single Complete Issue: Vol. XXI No. 584, October 9, 1852) With Lead Article "Recent Law and Chancery Reforms"

London, England: Herbert Ingram, 1852. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 297-312; previously disbound from bound volume; narrow waterstain along upper edges (to blank margins only); light foxing in places; else Near Fine. With numerous, and splendid engravings, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article Recent Law and Chancery Reforms; Shipwrecks and Loss of Life; Great Floods; Launch of the New Iron Emigrant Ship, the "W.S. Lindsay," at Willington, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (with engraving); Opening of Victoria College, Jersey (with engraving); Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (with two engravings The Castle de Sancto Laudo, Newton-Park, Somerset; and Ruins of Farleigh-Hungerford Castle, Somerset); Tomb Recently Discovered in St. Mary's Church, Redcliffe, Bristol (with etching); Eruption of Etna (with two engravings); Tour of the French President in the South (with two engravings, including front cover); The New Crystal Palace (with engraving Taking Casts of the Sphynx, at the Louvre); The "Duke" [of Wellington] as a Musical Amateur; Sketches at Stratfieldsay (with two engravings); humorous Letters Left at the Pastrycook's: Being the Clandestine Correspondence Between Kitty Glover at School, and Her "Dear, Dear Friend" in Town, edited by Horace Mayhew (with two engravings); Improvement and Enlargement of Guy's Hospital [Southwark] (with engraving)..