Album of the Great Exhibition, London, England
published 1852
This album contains 60 photographs and has a presentation page :
Presented to Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition of M.D.CCC.LI. to Doctor Lyon, Playfair, C.B.
and a title page :
Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851.
Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes into which the Exhibition was divided. By authority of the Royal Commission in four volumes. VOL. IV. Introductory, Awards, Reports - Classes XXXIX to XXX. London : Spicer Brothers, Wholesale Stationers; W. Cloeves and Sons, Printers; Contractors to the Royal Commision MDCCCLII.
This album also contains colour lithographs listed as follows: plate 1 (figs. 1-3); plate 2 (figs. 1-4); plate 3 (figs. 1-3).
Salted paper prints
book: 36.4 x 28 x 80 cm (14 5/16 x 11 x 31 1/2 in.) pages: 34,9 x 25,4 cm compositions: 16 x 21.8 cm (6 5/16 x 8 9/16 in.) secondary supports: 34,9 x 25,4 cm
PH1989:0262.04:001-060
- Contemporary binding consists of red leather-covered boards and spine. There are gold gilt inscriptions and accents on the cover, spine and endpapers. Endpapers are of blue silk moiré. Pages and secondary supports are of white paper with gold gilt edging. The book is comprised of a presentation page, title page, table of contents, list of illustrations, 495 pages of text, including an index, 3 plates of Indian decorative motifs and 60 photographs. The book is encased in a maroon cloth-covered clamshell case. According to the list of illustrations, book PH1989:0262.04:001-060 was supposed to have 59 photographs. However, the last photograph on the list of illustrations in book PH1989:0262.03:001-044, titled "Ivory Casket", is published in book PH1989:0262.04:001-060 instead.
inscribed - see object for complete inscription
London; England; United Kingdom;
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