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Title: The Illustrated London News, Volume LXXVI
Description: London, George C. Leighton, 1880. Hardcover. Ex-library. An oversize hardcover book with a black cloth spine, leather corners, and green cloth boards. Corners heavily worn and cloth smudged with flaked-off leather. First foldout is torn. Some closed tears here and there, most notably on page 263 and on most of the folding plates. A few library stamps inside, and some fingerprint smudges here and there, but otherwise, text clean and binding tight. Volume 76 of THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, with issues spanning January 3 through June 26, 1880. Contains reporting on the Second Anglo-Aghan War, a deadly mining explosion at Leycett Colliery, the opening of Parliament by Queen Victoria, an attempted assassination of Czar Alexander III of Russia, and a special article on the life and political career of William Gladstone. Among the many fine engravings are a foldout depicting the Tay Bridge disaster, a tug-of-war between British colonial soldiers and a large elephant, the first meeting of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his future wife Stephanie of Belgium, Sarah Bernhardt in the play "Frou-Frou," and humorous illustrations of candidates and voters in the 1880 elections. Measures approx. 16" x 11.75. Fair .

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