Author

[ALEXANDER II] - ILLUSTRATED TIMES (publisher).

Title

Czar Alexander II's Coronation.
Issue No. LXXII, Vol. III.

Published, Date

Times, London,13 September 1856.

Description

Folio (38 x 25.5 cm). [177]-192 pp. with 17 woodengravings incl. one full-page and one double-page, both signed in the plate, the first Gus Janal and the second Loudan; small stain to first leaf. Unbound, stiched.

Note

Fine copy of this uncommon issue from one the most famous Victorian periodicals. It relates -with colourful comments- one of the most lavish events in 19th.-c. Russian history, adding the perspective of the recent Crimean War as well as descriptions of Moscow churches among British and international news. Next to Russian regalia, the illustrations include 'The Cathedral of The Assumption at Moscow', 'The Church of William the Happy, Moscow' and, on a full page, 'The Proclamation of The Ceremony by The Imperial Officers, in the Red Market-Place, at Moscow'. The double-page engraving is particularly impressive, showing the 'Solemn Entry Into Moscow: The Imperial Procession Leaving The Petrovski Palace'. The 1850s Victorian periodical 'The Illustrated Times', which was the property of Mr. David Bogue, the bookseller of Fleet Street, was a rival of the Illustrated London News and of Lloyd's Illustrated London Newspaper, The Pictorial Times. The Crimean War was then in full swing, and pictures of incidents of the campaign form the chief attraction of the early numbers.

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Stock Number

78067