Shelfmark
Idd1.5.05 - Idd1.5.07
Main entry--meeting name
Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England)
Title
Great Exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 : official descriptive and illustrated catalogue / by authority of the Royal Commission.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the Great Exhibition 1851
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Spicer Brothers ... W. Clowes and Sons ... contractors to the Royal Commission, 1851-[1852?]
Physical description
4 v. : ill., maps, plans (some folded) ; 26 cm.
Note
Preface is signed 'Robert Ellis'.
Note
Pagination: cxcii, 208, 193*-208*, [1], 209-478, 76; [5], 480-1002; [5] 1004-1470; 15, [4], iv-xxviii, [3], 1472-1532, liv, 76, [8] p., [ca. 460] leaves of plates, some folded, some numbered.
Note
Vol. 1-3 originally published in 5 parts.
Note
Extra engraved t.p. by J.Tenniel and M. Jackson.
Note
Vol. 1-3 have the words "In three volumes" on t.p. The 'Supplementary volume' [v. 4] contains a 16-page advertisement with press reviews of the catalogue. The 'Notice' is dated December 1852.
Formatted contents note
Contents: Vol. 1. Index and introductory. Section I: Raw materials, classes 1 to 4. Section II: Machinery, classes 5 to 10 -- Vol. 2. Section III: Manufactures, classes 11 to 29. Section IV: Fine arts, class 30. Colonies -- Vol. 3. Foreign states -- [Vol. 4] Supplementary volume. United Kingdom. India. Foreign states. Index to annotations. First and second reports of the Royal Commissioners.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College on front flyleaf; former ECL shelfmark: En.4.07-09.
Provenance
Ms. note on front flyleaf: "The Reverend Edward Coleridge from one of the most obliged of all his pupils [illegible signature] Christmas 1851". Verses in Latin, Greek and English in the same hand below.
Binding
19th-century red morocco over paste/millboards. Covers decorated with blind and gilted tools; gilted centrepiece potrays the four continents personified; gilt transversal fillets on board edges. Spine with gilt titling. Textblock trimmed, rounded, and gilted. Endleaves of white ?silk (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect set: first three volumes only.
Subject
Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) Catalogs.
Subject
Industrial design Exhibitions Catalogs.
Subject
London (England)
Added entry--name
Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B52175