Old weekly "The Illustrated London News" number 2647 of Saturday 11 January 1890 (almost 130 years old), 30 pages (dimensions 31 x 43 cm) withe articles and/or engravings about :
- The royal palace of Laken destroyed by fire
- Our note book
- The fire at the Forest Gate Stratford schools (in London)
- Christmas entertainments at the London theatres
- The Tudor exhibition
- The late count (Alajs) Karolyi (1825-1899)
- The death of poets (Henry Yule, 1820-1899)
- The Niti Field Force Himalayas (to Thibet)
- Armorel of Lyonesse
- English cathedral in Madagascar
- Magazines for January
- Lord Lonsdale's travels in North America (Huhgh Cecil Lonter, 1857-1944)
- The new governor of bombay (lord George Harris, 1851-1932)
- A Japanese theatre
- The late mr Thomas Ashe (1885-1917)
- Art books
- Stanley's Emin pasha relief expedition leaving Matadi on the Congo with Tippoo Tib and his wives (engraving of two pages) en route for Léopoldville
- Chess
- Sir Rowland Hill (1795-1879) and Penny postage
- A ride across Australia (sketches by Arthur James Vogan, 1859-1948)
- Eclipses in the year 1890
- New books
- A gas-stoking machine
- Science Jottings retrospective
- Old masters at Burlington House
- Art journals
- The ladies column
- Wills and bequests
- Foreign news
- Beautiful engravings (sketches) by Richard Taylor (1872-1901), Paul Hermann Naumann (1851-1897), JB Blake Wirgman (1848-1925), Fred Barnard (1846-1896), H F Davey, Amedee Forestier (1854-1930), Thomas Ashe (1885-1917), Georg Meisenbach (1841-1912), William Heysham Overend (1851-1898), W mailcady, John Thompson (1785-1866), John Henry Robinson (1796-1871), John Sturgess (1864-1903), Joseph Swain (1820-1909), etc
- Articles by James Payn (1830-1898), Walter Besant (1836-1901), Joseph Hatton (1837-1907), George Barnett Smith , (1841-1909), Dr Andrew Wilson, Florence Fenwick-Miller (1854-1935), J.D., E.R., etc
- Publicty for Eutelees, Epps's Cocoa, Benson's watches, Mappin & Webb's, United Kingdom Tea Company's Teas, Treloar & Sons, Beecham's Pills, Peter Robinson's, Pumiline, Mappin Brothers, Pears' Transparent Soap, Parkins & Gotto, Negretti & Zambra, etc
Remark : piece from top right corner by mice but all articles are intact
Weight without packaging : 110 grams
Remark : several of the present engravings are sold on internet at € 30 and more !!!!