Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle. Price 5 pence. Sunday, July 1, 1838.
QUEEN VICTORIA (1838])
£150.00
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66 x 53.5 cm, 4pp. Featuring wood block illustrations of 'Victoria Crowned' and the procession of carriages and attendants. [London. Robert Bell, 1838].
Bell's Life in London, and Sporting Chronicle was an English weekly sporting paper. Between 1824 and 1852 it was edited by Vincent George Dowling, "during which time [it] became Britain's leading sporting newspaper, without which no gentleman's Sunday was quite complete" (ODNB).
Folds and some creasing, with a couple of small closed tears at the centre of a couple of folds.
Stock Code: 247816
