1861 ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS VOL 39 US CIVIL WAR BULL RUN McLELLAN BLENKER

  

I have here for sale a superbly illustrated book entitled THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS Volume XXXIX covering July to December 1861. This issue has a lot of content on: the US Civil War; the Battle of Bull Run; Fairfax Courthouse; Gen Blenker and torchlight parade; Texas Ranger at Alexandria; Federal sentries killed by Secessionists; Munson's Hill; Mississippians before Gen Beauregard; the Garibaldi Guard parading before President Abraham Lincoln; a lot of plates showing Japan; Ireland; Surrey Cricket XI; Melbourne; Antwerp; Dublin; Cairo etc etc. Bound in there are one double page colour illustration entitled The Chase in the Time of George II.

Pages ii, 678 - complete, no regular pages are missing. However there is no fold out of The Burgomaster's Dessert or the Hop-Garland. Very good condition indeed, quarter bound in brown leather on marbled hardboards with wear.

Five gilt lines on the spine and lettering in gilt. Both boards are firmly attached and no pages loose or missing. 41 cm x 29 cm. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.