Fine Victorian Engravings of Lancaster

Military Cycling: Formation for resisting attack of cavalry

1. Preliminary stage of attack 2. Forming to check advance 3.Close on - rear rank poring in a final volley 4. Actual contact

The Forth Bridge is built

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Some of the engravings for this year...

' The Guards Memorial in Brompton Cemetery '

' Memorial to Samuel Richardson, The Novelist in St Brides Church '

' The Late Mr C. E. Spooner, Civil Engineer '

' The Late Mr T. A. Walker Contractor '

' The Eight Hours Movement Procession in Australia ' through the streets of Melbourne

' Old Hand Frame Stocking Makers of Leicester, Guests at a Supper at the Tercentenary Festival of the Invention of the Stocking Frame '

' The Late Mr Martin Farquhar Tupper FRS DCL Author of Proverbial Philosophy '

' The Masters House in the Temple ' London

' Map of Part of South Africa Showing Portuguese Claims on the Zambesi '

' Sketches in the Northern Provinces of Brazil , Lagoa de Noste, Alagoas , Packmand Bringing Cotton to the Coast , Native Girl , A Mulatto Woman in Gala Dress , Hawker of Cheap French Earrings etc , Native Man , Falls on the Rio Mundatin , A Dark Corner, Fruit Sellers , A Blind Beggar

' Divided Duties from a picture by Lilian Young '

' Launching The Life Boat by F. W. Burton '

' A Paper Chase in Surrey '

' Blind Love by Wilkie Collins Chapter LVI ' illustrated by A. Forestier

' Mr H. M. Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition: Interview of Major Barttelot and Mr Jameson With Tippoo Tib at Stanley Falls ' Double page engraving "From a Sketch By Herbert Ward A Member of The Expedition"

' Sketches at The Will Office Somerset House ' four pages of sketches within the article

' Sketches From the Winter Exhibition of the Royal Society of British Artists ' - F. E. Grone - W. H. J. Boot - John Pedder - L. C. Henley - G. F. Watts RA - W. J. Morgan - F. Brangwyn - G. G. Kilburne Jun - Stuart Lloyd - W. Harding Smith - A. W. Strutt - Helen Cridland

' Melnotte & Fils Champagne Merchants ' Full page engraving showing the champagne establishment of Epernay

' Jewellers - Bensons of Bond Street ' Advert showing over twenty designs of victorian jewellery

' Mappin & Webb ' silverware advert

' Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company Ilst ' nineteen examples of jewellery, watches etc

' Sunlight Soap Works - Britannia introduces MR P. T. Barnum to The Greatest Show on Earth ' Advert

' Burroughs & Watt - Full Sized Section of the Patent Gold Medal Steel Block Eureka Extra Low Billiard Cushion ' advert with various other billiards and skittle adverts

' We All Want a Waterbury Watch for Christmas ' advert

'Our Note Book by James Payn'

The Playhouses with reference to Mr John Hare - Mrs Bernard-Beere - Sarah Bernhardt etc

' The Court ' at Windsor etc

' Fashionable Marriages includes Rev Stewart Gordon Ponsonby to Miss Mary Catherine Buxton - Mr Francis Egerton Hardinge and The Hon. Emma Clifford - Mr Gilbert Murray and LAdy Mary Henrietta Howard - Baron Auguste de Nexon to Miss Gertrude Ricardo

' Art - The Goupil Gallery - Dowdeswell's Galleries etc

Science Jottings - Spiders by Andrew Wilson

' Wills and Bequests
Sir Daniel Gooch, Bart., late of Clewer Park near Windsor and Fulthorpe House, Paddington , Dame Jane Margaret Vaughan Williams late of 24 Queen Annes Gate ( Grandmother of Ralph Vaughan Williams ) , Lord Adelbert Percy Cecil late of Stamford Lincolnshire , Sir Ronald Ferguson Thomson , Colonel Joseph Walker Jasper Ouseley of 10 Inverness Terr Kensington Gardens , Mrs Anna Eliza perceval late of 21 Lowndes Street , Samuel Osborne Habershon MD late of 70 Brook Street Grosvenor Square , Mrs Barbara Mary Nicol late of Longton Grove Sydenham , Mr John George Rodney Ward JP late of Yatton Court Kingsland Herefordshire , Mr Bernard Hale DK formerly of Holly Mill and Late of Forest House Hartfield Sussex '

' The Ladies Column by Florence Fenwick Miller '

Old hand-frame stocking makers of Leicester - (Full Page)

Map of part of South Africa, showing Portuguese claims on the Zambesi - (Half Page)

Sketches in the northern provinces of Brazil - (Full Page)

'Divided Duties' - a picture by Lillian Young - (Full Page)

Launching a life-boat - (Full Page)

A Paper Chase in Surrey - (Full Page - Horse Riding)

Mr H M Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition: Interview of Major Barttelot and Mr Jameson with Tippoo Tib at Stanley Falls - (Double Page)

Sketches at The Will Office, Somerset House - (3 Pages)

Sketches from the Winter Exhibition of the Royal Society of British Artists - (Full Page)

Melnotte & Fils - Champagne Merchants - (Full Page advertisement)

4 other pages of illustrated advertisements including SUNLIGHT SOAP, VAN HOUTEN'S COCOA, EAU D'AMBERT, BOUILLON FLEET

December 14th

The late Mister Jefferson Davis, - by Thomas Walter Wilson  .

'Inauguration of Mr Jefferson Davis, at Richmond, As President of the Confederate Southern States in 1861'

' Mr Jefferson Davis and his party retreating across the Pe Dee river North Carolina at the fall of the Southern Confederacy '

' Mr Jefferson Davis Bidding Farewell to His Escort Two days Before His Capture '

' The Emin Pasha relief expedition : Camp at Kinshassa, on the congo with Tipoo Tib's Headquarters - a full page print from engraving showing Mr Stanley talking to The Tippoo Tib - An english official writing a letter - and others in the expedition around a camp fire

' The late Mr Frederic Clay ' - musical composer

' Entertainment at St Andrews hall Newman street, to provide St Pancras poor with Christmas dinners '

' The Gas Workers meeting on Peckham Rye Sunday 8 December ' referring to a dispute between the South Metropolitan Gas Company and The Gas Workers Union

' Prince Albert Victor in India: The Review at Poonah - Native infantry Marching '

' Prince Albert of Wales in India - The Prince at Gunesh Khund, the government house at Poonah Bombay, with Lord and Lady Reay ' full page fro ma photograph including Sir E. Bradford and many others

' Sketches in Madagascar - A Fruit Seller , A Night Watchman , An Old Native Beggar , A Honey Seller , A Country Hide Carrier , Night Watchman , Country Wood Seller ' full page

Blind Love By Wilkie Collins Chapter LIX - LX - Illustrations by A. Forestier

Scene outside British Museum - near full page print from engraving by A. Forestier  .

' An Open Air Restaurant at Lahore ' a wonderful double page print engraved by H. Baude from the work by E. L. Weeks

' The Soldiers Institute at Portsmouth - Established by Miss Sarah Robinson ' a full page print from engraving showing Summer evening lounge - Coffee shed dockyard - Mothers meeting & The reading room

' Sketches in the Northern Provinces of Brazil ' by A. F. Forestier engraved by P. Naumann - 7 views entitled - Jose a young half breed - A Trapiche man or porter - Extraordinary engineering, the Alagoas railway - A Carroca or up country cart - On the way up country : Novel use for top boots - Jangada or catamaran - Taking the washing home

Sketches from the Gondoliers at the Savoy Theatre ' full page print from engraving by R Taylor

' Mappin and Webb ' Full page print from engraving showing twenty seven items of silver plate

' Birds Custard Powder ' a calamitous scene in the kitchen!

' A Circus Scene ' full page advert for Ellimans Embrocation drawn by John Sturgess - known for his equestrian and Coaching prints

' Godwin and Son - Novelties in Jewellery - Thirteen Designs including Diamon Ruby Sapphire Butterfly Brooch

' Beechams pills ' engraving of a lady

' United Kindom Tea Company ' advert

' Treloars Special Foreign Floor Rugs and Carpets ' showing a Kurd Rug at 6s. 6d. - advert

' Mappin and Webb Travelling Bag ' advert

' Pears Soap - You Dirty Boy ' advert

' Liliput Field and Opera Glasses ' advert

' Clarke's Pyramid and Nursery Lamp Food Warmers ' advert

' Perry and Co Pens '

Our Note Book By James payne

The Court at Windsor, Sandringham etc - Royal Comings and Goings

The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition - The Camp at Kinshassa, Stanley Pool

The Playhouses - The "Gondliers " by Mr W. S. Gilbert at The Savoy

Gas Stokers Meeting at peckham Rye

New Books - Reviews include - Our Viceregal Life in India by the Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava , Chaucers Canterbury Tales, Illustrations of English Life in Chaucers Time by John Saunders , The History of a Slave by H. H. Johnston FRGS

Science Jottings - Some Mixed Relationships by Andrew Wilson

Obituary
The Right Hon. George Patrick Percy Lord Carbery of Carbery Col. Cork died at his Seat Laxton Hall near Wandsford, Northamptonshire. ( There is an error in this obituary regarding his successor which was noted in the next edition of 21 Dec. being " succeeded by the Hon William Charles Evans Freke married to Lady Victoria Cecil and not Lady Katherine Felicia Pakenham) , The Right Hon. William Barnard Lord de Blaquiere of Ardkill Co. Londonderry , Sir Percy Florence Shelley Son of Percy Bysshe Shelley the Poet and Mary Wollstonecroft ( or Wollstonecraft ) , Lieutenant General Sir Henry D'Oyly Torrens KCB KCMG Governor and Commander of Malta , Mr Matthew Peter D'Arcy MA of Kilecroney, Bray in Co. Wicklow .

Deaths
Admiral Jeringham , General John Stafford Paton at 86 Oxford Street London , Colonel James Poyntz at Windsor, Nova Scotia , Leiut. Gen. John Irwin Willes , Venerable Archdeacon Jones lat Archd. of Liverpool at Waterloo in LIverpool , Admiral V. A. Massingberd , Lieutenant Colonel Eustace Anderson died at Mortlake , Mr George Gilpin Brown of Sedbury Park Richmond, Yorkshire , Colonel Richard John Edgell Chief Constable of Shropshire died at Claremont, Shrewsbury , The Hon. Henry William Petre died at the Manor House, Writtle , The Hon. Mrs Robert Bruce Suddenly while entering the Club Train at Victoria Station , General John Alfred Street CB died at Uplands, Maybury Heath Woking

Wills and Bequests
Mister Alfred Penn late of 19 Parkside, Albert Gate , Miss Sarah Ann Cawston late of Folly House near Braintree Essex , Miss AnneHadfield Ray late of Claremont Place, Sheffield , Mr Henry Benyon Crichton late of Wye Clifton, Hay, Radnorshire , Mrs Charlotte Brtaithwaite late of Holmdale, Cheltenham , Miss Mary Elizabeth Buckle formerly of Priory Place, Bath and late of Littledown Rd Bournemouth , Major General Edward Davison RE late of Tudor House, Wandsworth

Lord and Lady Coleridge at The Stockwell Trianing College

The Soldiers Institute at Portsmouth

Music includes - The Gondoliers or The King of Barataria with reference to Mr W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan

Musical Publications includes Song Stories for Children by J. L. Molloy , Chappell's Musical Magazine , The Art of Breathing By Leo Kofler , A System of Harmony of Teacher and Pupil By J. A. Broekhoven

The Bethnal Green Free Library

Maple And Co. - advert

The Ladies Column by Florence Fenwick Miller with reference to - Florence Fenwick Miller was a victorian feminist, journalist, public lecturer and educator. Involved in the suffrage movement and a promoter of women's rights and education. Also wrote columns and articles under the name of " Filomena " or " Filomena's Letter  .

December 21st

Mrs Bernard-Beere ' by T. Walter Wilson

' The Right Hon. Sir Michael - Lord Morris The New Lord Justice of Appeal for Ireland ' .

' The Right Hon. Peter O' Brien - New Lord Chief Justice of Ireland '

' Mr Serjeant Madden QC MP - New Attorney General For Ireland '

' Mr John Atkinson QC - New Solicitor General for Ireland '

' The Gas Strike - Gas Makers at Work - Drawing Coke , Pipe Cleaner , Scoop Driver x4 Men , Door Man , Charging a Retort ' full page

' Elsenham Hall in Essex - The Prince of Wales Inspecting Mr Walter Gilbey's Stud of Shire Horses ' four engravings entitled His Royal Highness Arriving at the Paddock With Lord Brooke , Elsenham Hall , In the Paddock and The Smallest Pony in England , Trotting Hackney Stallions

' Mr Walter Gilbey Of Elsenham Hall in Essex '

' The Late Mr John Cameron Macdonald Executive Manager of The Times Newspaper '

' The Late Henry Ernest Searle of Grafton, Clarence River, New South Wales, Australia - The Champion Sculler of the World '

' Silver Wedding Gifts From the Colony of Victoria Austria to the Prince and Princess of Wales '

' Hyderabad ' by P. Naumann from the sketches by Mr E. H. Dwane - recording the visit of Prince Albert Victor to india and includes - Hall of the Chow Mahal palace , Hyderabad Station , Non Commissioned Officer And Sepoy , Hussein Saugar Tank with the Nizam's New Palace , Arch Near St Georges Church , Officer of the Nizams Guards , The Nizams State Coach .

' Stirring the Christmas Pudding ' a beautiful full page print from engraving from the work by M. Brown showing a little girl and her mother preparing for christmas

' The Late Sir Percy Florence Shelley '

' Bishopthorpe on the Ouse near York '

' Yarm on the River Tees in Yorkshire '

' Newton Solney in Derbyshire - The Junction of the Dove with the Trent '

' Carlton on the Trent in Nottinghamshire '

Illustrations by A. Forrestier for "Blind Love" by Wilkie Collins - Chapter LXI etc

The Revolution in Brazil

' The Ex Empress of Brazil - Donna Theresa Christina Maria ' wife of Dom Pedro de Alcantara .

' The Old Palace in Which the imperial Family Was Imprisoned '

' City Hall near Barracks in Campo Santa Anna Where Flag of Republic was Displayed '

' The Emperors Palace of San Christoval at Rio de Janeiro '

Mr H. M. Stanley 's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition

' Tippoo Tib's Grand Canoes Going Down The Congo '

' A Ba-Yanzi Village on the Congo '

' Travelling in a Hammock in West Central Africa '

From Sketches by Mr Herbert Ward a Member of the Expedition - Double page

The rest is just me telling you what's printed - ' Dat Arh Ole Krisermas Goose '

" Jess'u go'long an cotch one ob dem ole gray gooses an I chobb im Haid orf, yo mammy wantim fo crisermas dinnah "

And so on !

Full page

' The Late Colonel Arthur Rowley Heyland Commander of the 1st bombay Lancers '

' Christmas on Board an Australian Pleasure Steamer ' a sketch by "Our Artist last year on one of the boats running between Melbourne and Geelong ..."

' Christmas in Australia - Two Ladies Stopping the Train to Got to a Christmas Party - A Station Between Melbourne and Sydney ' - (Woodford on the sign) a wonderful full page print engraved by R. Taylor from the drawings by Thomas Walter Wilson .

' Chess Problem by W. Biddle '

' The International Fur Store ' advert

Sir John Bennett Ltt - Keyless Lever Watches ' x3 - advert

' Christmas List Of Novelties from Bensons of Bond St '

' Mappin And Webbs christmas Presents ' silver plate

' Beethams Glycerine and Cucumber for The Skin ' advert

' Maple and Co Bedstead ' advert

Bensons Watches - Keyless Lever Watches '

' Christmas Festivities - The Pianoforte ' full apge print from engraving of a crowded room and a lady playing the piano - Advert for John Brinsmead and Sons of Wigmore Street London

' Cinderella and Her Fiary Godmother - The Three Waterbury watches Perfect Timekiipers ' advert

' Sunlight Soap - So Clean ' from the painting by W. P. Frith of a little victorian girl

An many other adverts of the day

This second part of the description features items of news articles etc but have no images associated with the subject matter unless listed above. They include :-

Our Note Book By James payne

The Court at Windsor, Clarence House etc - Royal Comings and Goings

Music

Obituary
Lady Charlotte Barbara Lyster of Rowton Castle Shropshire , The Right Hon. Edward Pleydell-Bouverie at his town residence 44 Wilton Crescent , Major General Alured Clarke Johnson CB RA , Mr Robert Browning The Poet at the palazzo Rezzon ico at Venice whilst visiting his son Mr Robert Barrett Browning the artist

Tennysons New Poems

Fashionable Marriages inclued Captain G. Limbrey Sclater Booth to Miss Mary Hargreaves daughter of Colonel Hargreaves at St Peters Church Earley Berks , Mr Claud Alexander to Lady Diana Montgomerie daughter of the Earl of Eglinton at Holy Trinity Church Knightsbridge , Viscount Dangan son of Earl Cowley to Lady Violet Nevill daughter of the Marquis of Abergavenny at St Georges Church Hanover Square

Foreign News includes the sentance of Coughlin, O' Sullivan and Burke for the murder of Dr Cronin

The Late Robert Browning

The Late Sir Percy Shelley

Royal National Life Boat Institution

The Ladies Column by Florence Fenwick Miller with reference to the Soph Johnston , Mrs Bernard-Beere Excluding Woman from the Royal Academy Art Schools and more - Florence Fenwick Miller was a victorian feminist, journalist, public lecturer and educator. Involved in the suffrage movement and a promoter of women's rights and education. Also wrote columns and articles under the name of " Filomena " or " Filomena's Letter  . .

Emin Pasha Relief Expedition with reference to Tippoo Tib - Mr Stanley - Mr Werner - Mr Woodville and more - column by Joseph Hatton

The Royal Academy Schools

Science Jottings - A Remarkable History by Andrew Wilson

Wills and Bequests include Colonel George Tomline JP DL formerly MP For Sudbury - Shrewsbury - Great Grimsby and late of 1 Carlton House Terrace and Of Orwell Park Ipswich and of Riby Grove, Lincolnshire , Mister Siegmund Ochs late of 83 Hatton garden, Merchant , Mister WilliamKnowles formerly of Ribblesdale House, Leigham Court Road Streatham and late of 48 Moorgate Street, and of Langley House, Slough , Mr Frederick Fair formerly of St Andrews, North Britain and Late of 5 Elm Park Gardens, Chelsea died at Monte Carlo -0 , Mrs Elizabeth Steward Taylor late of 15 Bryanston Square , Mr Samuel paynter late of 5 Clifton Place Brighton , Mr Ferdinando Jackson late of Woodland House, Sutton, Macclesfield in Cheshire, a Silk Manufacturer , Mr Thomas Rousby Kendall late of Timberscombe in Somersetsetshire .

Christmas Lights by W.H.D.A.

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