The Illustrated London News (Two Numbers Double Issue: Vol. XXII Nos. 606 and 607, February 5, 1853) With Imperial Marriage Supplement (Napoleon III)

Herbert Ingram, 1853. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Overview and condition: complete issue numbers 606 and 607 containing pages 89-120; previously disbound from bound volume; front and rear pages of the Supplement detached but present. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and news items, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article Celebration of the Emperor's Marriage (Napoleon III); "Sea Elephants," or Elephant Seals; Foreign and Colonial News; Obituary of Eminent Persons; The Weather and Mortality in the Metropolitan Districts in the Year 1852; Chantilly; Impending Famine in Madeira; The New City Prison, Holloway; Church, Universities, &c.; The Court; Metropolitan News; Kaffir Prisoners at the Cape; Steam to Australia - The "Antelope" and the "Marco Polo" - Screw v. Sail; Melfi, After the Late Earthquake; Naval and Military Intelligence; Music; The Theatres; Epitome of News - Foreign and Domestic; Chess; Fine Arts; Celebration of Lord Pevensey's Twenty-First Birthday; St. James's Hospital, Doncaster; The Clipper Schooner "Marian Zagury"; Testimonial to Mr. R.N. Philipps; Testimonial to Major Maugham; Visitation of Trinity College, Oxford; Lord Raglan; Raglan Castle; Provincial Intelligence; Law and Police Intelligence; National Sports; Monetary Transactions of the Week; The Markets; The London Gazette; Paris Fashions for February; Imperial Marriage Supplement (Napoleon III) including: Marriage of the Emperor of the French; The Imperial Marriage - Civil Ceremony; The Religious Ceremony - Preparations in the Streets of Paris; full-page engraving "Arrival of the Imperial Procession at Notre Dame"; full-page engraving "The Marriage Ceremony in Notre Dame - The Altar"; Preparations at Notre Dame; Interior of Notre Dame; The Imperial Procession to Notre Dame; Arrival at Notre Dame; The Religious Ceremony [transcript]; Return of the Procession; The Palace of the Tuileries; full-page engraving "Napoleon III, Emperor of the French"; full-page engraving "The Empress of the French"; Royal and Imperial Marriages in France; poem "Le Champ d'Asile" by H. Spicer (with a short introduction, which begins: "The Champ d'Asile was a wretched swamp in Texas, where a colony of old officers of the Empire took refuge"); Norton's Patent Indicators of Numbers and Distances; full-page engraving "The Marriage Ceremony in Notre Dame"; The Trousseau of the Empress; The Imperial State Carriage; Closeburn; Literature; advertisements; full-page engraving "The Civil Marriage of the Emperor in the Salle des Marechaux, at the Tuileries.".