Beschreibung
The richly illustrated three volume catalogue of the exhibits of the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition, the first in a series of World's Fairs. With a further supplementary volume also. A fascinating record of the exhibits, exhibitors, and prize winners, of the Great Exhibition of 1851. This catalogue is valuable as a source of information on the state of industry and the arts in the mid-nineteenth century.Volume I contains an Index and Introduction, and Section I: Raw Materials, Classes 1 to 4; Section II: Machinery, Classes 5 to 10.With an illustrated title page, colour folding map, four folding plates - one tinted - and a further twenty-one plates. Collated, complete.Volume II contains Section III: Manufactures, Classes 11 to 29; Section IV: Fine Arts, Class 30, and 'Colonies'.Illustrated with ninety-three plates, including one folding and four in colour. Collated, complete.Volume III consists of 'Foreign States'.Collated, illustrated with one-hundred and forty-five plates. Lacking one double page plate.The fourth volume present here is titled 'Part V', and is a supplementary volume contains additions to volume I, II and III, and has facsimile title pages for those two volumes. The commissioners of the work wanted to issue the Official Catalogue before the Exhibition closed, thus omitting many illustrations and important late-entry descriptions, some of which are included here.Part V is illustrated with an illustrated title page and forty plates. With the stamp of the Wales Parliament Library throughout the first three volumes, including to title pages, and reverse of each plate.With seventy-one pages of advertisements to the rear of volume I. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Final volume rebacked, with boards restored, endpapers renewed, and with original cloth back strip loosely inserted. Head of volume I rear joint starting, with cloth back strip detaching, but boards holding firm. Volume II joints starting, with cloth detached to head of back strip. Hinges of first three volumes all starting, with volume II front hinge repaired with tape, and all boards holding firm. Instances of discolouration to back strips and boards. Internally, bindings of first three volumes lightly strained. Instances of spotting and some foxing to each volume. Library stamps throughout the first three volumes. One page of vol I advertisements detached. Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 839F21
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