Publication:
London : Spicer Brothers, Wholesale Stationers : W. Clowes and Sons, Printers, 1851.
Edition: [3rd? ed. in 3 vols]. Physical Description: 3 volumes (cxcii, 1469 pages, [279] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations (some color), plans, diagrams ; 27 cm Language: English Staff View: MARC Record OCLC Number: 1008093908 Contents:
V.1. Index and introductory. Section 1. Raw materials, Classes 1 to 4. Section 2. Machinery, Classes 5 to 10. -- v. 2. Section 3. Manufactures, Classes 11 to 29. Section 4. Fine arts, Class 30. Colonies. -- v. 3. Foreign States.
Subjects:
Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) Catalogs.
Great Exhibition.
Armorial bookplates England 1800-1899.
Colour lithographs England 1851-1852.
Engraved title pages England 1851-1852.
Library bindings England 1950-1999.
Maps England 1851-1852.
Publishers' advertisements England 1851-1852.
Steel engravings England 1851-1852.
Wood engravings England 1851-1852.
Exhibition catalogues England 1851.
Catalogs.
Wood-engraved printers' ornaments England 1859.
Genre:
Wood-engraved printers' ornaments
Exhibition catalogues.
Armorial bookplates
Colour lithographs
Engraved title pages
Library bindings
Maps
Publishers' advertisements
Steel engravings
Wood engravings
Exhibition catalogues
Catalogs.
Notes:
1 col. printing specimen by George Rowney & Co. (v.2, p.820).
5 col. lithographs by Day & Son (v.2, p.638).
A fourth, supplementary, volume was published separately in 1852.
At head of title: Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, 1851.
Col. lithograph of Kieff suspension bridge by Day & Son from a watercolour by John Bourne (v.1, p.320).
Col. plan of exhibition building lithographed by Standidge & Co., 36 Old Jewry, London (v.1, p.111).
Colour map of "Geographical view of the Great Exhibition of 1851, shewing [sic] at one view the relative and territorialdistribution of the various localities from whence the raw materials & manufactures contributed to the exhibition have been severally supplied"; lithographed by Augustus Petermann, 5 Camden Street, Camden Town.
Edited by Robert Ellis; introduction by Henry Cole.
Edition binding, case bound in blue diagonal coarse ribbed-morocco grain cloth, panel stamped in blind; illustration of Britannia and the figures representing the four continents blocked in gold on upper board and in blind on lower board; gilt edges.
Illustrated throughout with wood and steel engravings by various artists including J. Jarvis, P.H. Delamotte, C.P. Nichols and J.P. Davies.
Pages numberd cxcii, [1]-478, 465*-478*, [1]-76; 479-1002; [1005]-1469.
The third edition was also published in five parts.
This edition varies from another, possibly earlier, edition; different pagination in v.3; different illustrations and different printer's ornaments at end of some sections (cf. p.854).
Title on added t.p.: Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the Great Exhibition 1851.
V.1 with Exhibition official illustrated catalogue advertiser at back (p.[1]-76); v.2 with advertisement for Exhibition official catalogues at back followed by "The Times account of the Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue, extract from 13 Sept. 1851 and The catalogue's account of itself, extract from Dicken's Household words, 23 Aug. 1851.
With added engraved t.p. in v.I-III, drawn by J. Tenniel, R.A. and engraved by M. Jackson (p.xi).
Illustrated throughout with wood and steel engravings by various artists including J. Jarvis, P. H. Delamotte, C. P. Nichols and J. P. Davies.
With added engraved t.p. in v.I-III, drawn by J. Tenniel, R. A. and engraved by M. Jackson (p.xi).
Copy [A] lacks engraved title pages; map contained in envelope on inside back board of v.1; lacks advertisements at back of v.2.
Forster printed catalogue reference: Forster T 8vo 2923.
Library also holds two copies of 1st[?] edition, one copy of 3rd edition in five parts and a photocopy , three copies of Large edition and five copies of Supplementary volume.
Library holds two copies.
Library's copy [A] bound in light blue cloth with "BPL" [Bermondsey Public Library] stamped in gold on bottom right hand corner of upper board; each t.p. stamped "Free Public Library Bermondsey" and each endpaper stamped "Withdrawn from reserve stock Southwark Public Libraries".
Library's copy [A] v.1 previously shelved at A.62.5.
Library's copy [A] v.2 previously shelved at A.62.6.
Library's copy [A] v.3 previously shelved at A.62.7.
Library's copy [B] in edition binding; bound by Remnant & Edmonds, London (binder's label at back of each vol.); armorial bookplate of John Forster in v.III; each vol. stamped: Department of Science & Art. 1876. Forster Bequest; donated by John Forster; lacks colour printing specimen by Rowney (v.2, p.820).
Library's copy [B] with advertisment at front of v.1 announcing that "it has become necessary to divide [the catalogue] into five parts, or three volumes ..."
Transferred from old catalogue.
England - London
Contents: v.1. Index and introductory. Section 1. Raw materials, Classes 1 to 4. Section 2. Machinery, Classes 5 to 10. -- v.2. Section 3. Manufactures, Classes 11 to 29. Section 4. Fine arts, Class 30. Colonies. -- v.3. Foreign States.
Dilke, p.78.
Forster, 2923.
Accession number: Forster 2923