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Latey, John Lash (editor) : The Illustrated London News. No. 1124. Vol. XXXIX. Saturday, December 28, 1861. AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

(London: George C. Leighton, 1861)

400 x 280 mm; magazine, disbound from volume XXXIX, without wraps (as issued), and contained within a film fronted bag; pp. [655-678]; several woodcuts. Regular light browning; some soiling and fingering throughout; some glue remnants to stitching; bound edge of last page somewhat ragged, and reinforced with archival tape. News in this issue is dominated by the funeral of the Prince Consort (with several illustrations, including full-page ones), and the column margins have a broad black outline, as of mourning paper. There is a single-sided full-page portrait of the late Prince Albert. The continuing American Civil War also receives attention. Information on the War is brought up to the 13th of December, as reported in New York. American Civil War illustration: "Drumming out a soldier of the Federal Army through the streets of Washington" (p. 666). Excerpts: 'IN MEMORIAM. All is over. The last rites of national mourning have been fulfilled as they only can be fulfilled on those rare occasions when there is added to the unexpectedness of calamity an overwhelming sense of its irreparable nature. The son has seen the last of his father by the burialplace in the Chapel of St. George at Windsor; the widowed Queen sits alone with her children seeking and giving comfort; the lamentations of a whole people have ascended from church and chapel throughout the breadth of the land; everywhere in the public streets and places there has prevailed a great hush, a mournful but significant silence; trade has been suspended, amusements have been set aside, even the dread shadow of war itself has almost at times been forgotten in the more terrible reality of our great loss. If any manifestation of the profoundest respect for him, or of the most affectionate and sympathetic loyalty for her, on the part of a great people, can mitigate the blow for the survivors, they have both of these things assured them to an extent and with a heartfelt sincerity that the history of this country can rarely parallel.'

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