The Illustrated London News (Single Complete Issue: Vol. XXV No. 701, September 9, 1854) With Lead Article "The Colony of the Fiddle" [on Ole Bull] With Supplement

London, England: Herbert Ingram, 1854. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 221-244 including Supplement; previously disbound from bound volume; light narrow waterstain along upper edges of last few pages (to blank margins only and not affecting pagination); light foxing throughout. Rich with spendid engravings throughout for most feature articles and primary news items, lengthy regular columns, all containing detailed reportage of London, local, domestic, colonial, and foreign news and events, history, politics, law and crime, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music. Highlights of this issue include: lead article The Colony of the Fiddle (on Ole Bull); Abo (the Capital of Russian Finland, with front cover engraving); two-paragraph A Popular Movement in Denmark; lengthy regular news column Foreign and Colonial News (topics include The Crimea Expedition - Russian Preparations; The Battles of Bayazid and Kurukdere; Turkey and Austria in the Principalities; Austrian Neutrality; The Austrian and Prussian Notes to Russia; A Skirmish at Shanghae; others); short The 'Charlemagne' at Constantinople (with engraving); short French Military Barracks Outside Pera (with engraving); short Rear-Admiral Plumridge (with portrait engraving); short New South Wales Regatta Cup (with engraving); Operations of the White Sea Squadron (with engravings "Attack on the Town of Novitska, in the White Sea, by the 'Miranda' and 'Brisk'" and "Burning of the Town of Novitska, in the White Sea"); The Royal Meeting at Boulogne (topics include The Grand Mass at the Camp; Arrival of the King of Portugal; The Arrival of Prince Albert; The Reception of Prince Albert; The Review at St. Omer - with engravings "The Meeting of His Royal Highness Prince Albert and the Emperor of the French, at Boulogne"; "Sketch of a Portion of the Camp at St. Omer"; two drawings of "Medal Struck at the Mint, at Paris, to Commemorate the Anglo-French Alliance"; and full-page engraving "The Grand Military Mass, at the Camp at Honvault, Near Boulogne, on Sunday Last"); Sweden and Norway - From a Correspondent; Marriage of the Sultan's Daughter (with two engravings: "The Marriage Procession of the Sultan's Daughter, at Constantinople" and "Marriage of the Sultan's Daughter - Fete at Baltaliman"); Militia and Yeomanry (with full-page engraving "English Militia and Yeomanry Cavalry"); The General Court-Martial at Windsor - From our Military Correspondent; Victoria London Docks (with engraving); Henry Russell (with portrait engraving); Sugar Manufacture in Brazil (with engraving); short The Capture of Bomarsund (with full-page engraving "Fort Nottich, Bomarsund - Breach Made by an English Three-Gun Battery"); Notes of a Rambler (No. III) - Fife-Aberdeen; untitled poem, author not mentioned, "On reading an abstract account of the prison horrors at Birmingham, and Lord Dudley Stuart's report of the state of our hospital at Constantinople, in the 'Times,' Friday, July 28, 1854"; occasional column Nooks and Corners of Old England - Belsize House (with engraving); Varna After the Recent Fire (with engraving); short Boat Attack, Aland Isles (with engraving); lengthy The War on the Danube - From our Special Correspondent (with two engravings and map)..