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Title: The Illustrated London News, Volume LXXXIX (July-December 1886)
Description: London, George C. Leighton, 1886. Hardcover. 716p. Ex-library. An oversize hardcover book with a black cloth spine, leather corners, and green cloth boards. FAIR condition. Split forming down the back edge of the spine. Corners heavily rubbed and hinges cracked, though all pages are still attached. A few old library markings inside and foxing in the margins, but text otherwise unmarked. Foldout portrait of Lord Salisbury at page 193 has some closed tears. A worn but readable copy overall. Volume 89 of THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, containing all weekly issues from July 3 through December 25, 1886. Contains reporting on the Colonial and Indian Exhibition; the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway; and the Bulgarian coup d'etat that led to the abdication of Alexander of Battenberg. Also contains installments of THE WORLD WENT VERY WELL THEN by Walter Besant. Among the many fine engravings are a foldout color map of the United Kingdom illustrating the political breakdown on Irish home rule; the Bret Harte poems "Jack of the Tules" and "The Thought-Reader of Angels" with large illustrations; a portrait of Tory statesman Lord Randolph Churchill; a foldout portrait of philosopher-sociologist Herbert Spencer, who coined the phrase "survival of the fittest"; and depictions of each British colony's exhibit at the aforementioned Exhibition. Measures approx. 16" x 12. Fair .

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