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Price: US$153.93 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 882pp. 3 chromolithographed plates, plus some in-text engravings.Front cover and spine are loose Inscribed on the fep "Presented to Charles Hanson by the Commissioners of The Great Exhibition 1851". Heavy item, may attract additional postage.
Seller: Don Kelly Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.41 + shipping
Description: Presentation Copy, one volume edition intended for presentation to exhibitors. Large 8vo (27cm). Three lovely colour plates of textile designs with tissue guards. (6), cxx, (868) + 16pp of adverts for Official Exhibition Catalogue. Publisher's red gilt and blind-stamped cloth, all edges gilt; top and tail of spine badly rubbed; red cloth lifting from front and back hinge, plain canvas showing through, shaken and inner joint repaired with old tape; bookplate of the Textile Council Design Centre on inner pastedown; 1872 manuscript letter pasted down on front free endpaper related to presentation of this copy; an about good copy. This huge book is a compilation of the reports by expert jurors on the displays at the Great Exhibition of 1851 (Crystal Palace). An invaluable resource on the state of manufacturing, industry and design.
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$256.55 + shipping
Description: Over 1000 pages; i.e. Title Page, 2 commission pages, 2 contents pages, cxxx (130) list of award pages (names of people/companies), 867 pages (inc. index) & 3 colour chromolithographs (very good condition). Various b/w engravings within text. Original embossed red binding, partly detached, Contents mostly Good, clean & tight, no inscriptions, a few pages minor foxing, tiny loss to edge of one page ect. last 2 pages loose. Needs rebinding as split in 2 parts and partly detached. Extra is what looks like contemporary incomplete note against Mr. Gibbs Smith of the Great Exhibition of 1851. This is a very thick/heavy volume of reports by the expert panels of jurors on the objects displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851, with medals given for the best of the exhibits. Scan is of part only of cover/spine. As so heavy please email re extra postage charge outside UK. 18 x 27 x 6.5cm Thick Approx
Seller: Malcolm Books, Thetford, United Kingdom
Price: US$259.83 + shipping
Description: first edition [presentation copy] 867pp+ads.3 col.plates VG (red cloth w.blind and gilt stamps to cover and spine,mod.stained and sl.sunned w.spine sunned,chipping and sl.wear to extrems.,boards sl.shaky,yellow eps,owner's inscr.to ffep,sl.paper separation at ep gutters,separation starting at dedication gutter,sl.to mod.foxing of contents,spine cracked w.sl.separation starting at some sections,aeg sl.rubbed,sl.shaky spine) a weighty tome;detailing the exhibition of works of industry of all nations in 1851
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$397.66 + shipping
Description: A massive volume which prints verbatim the reports by expert panels of jurors on the objects displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Medals were to be given for the best of the exhibits, a larger and more prestigious one for ?important novelty of invention or application, either in material, or processes of manufacture, or originality combined with great beauty of design?, and a smaller medal for ?excellence in production or workmanship?, and the jurors who awarded these included such notable individuals as Michael Faraday, Joseph Hooker, George Rennie, Lewis Gruner, J.G.Crace, Panizzi, Cockerell and Pugin. The volume also prints a lengthy and interesting ?Supplementary Report on Design? by Richard Redgrave, praising and criticising the general state of contemporary design as evidenced by the exhibits. Copies of it were specifically intended for presentation to exhibitors (hence the words ?presentation copy? which appear as part of the volume?s printed title). Large 8vo. (6) + cxx + 867 + (1)pp, 3 coloured plates, also 16pp of adverts for Official Exhibition Catalogue. Publisher?s gilt and blind-stamped cloth, all edges gilt (?bound for the Royal Commission by Leighton Son & Hodge, 13 Shoe Lane, London?), worn at hinges of spine and at outer corners, also a little bumped at head and foot of spine.
Seller: Hugh Pagan Limited, Brockenhurst, HANTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. Stout octavo (26cm). Publisher's red cloth-covered boards, decoratively stamped in gilt and blind; a.e.g.; cxx,[1]-867,16pp; 3 inserted leaves of chromolithographic color plates. Mild foxing to preliminary leaves, with occasional spots of scattered foxing to text margins. Else a remarkably bright and well-preserved copy of this massive volume, easily Near Fine. Full transcript of expert jurors' verdicts on the thousands of entries of items in the Great Exhibition of 1851. Prefaced with an index to the divisions, list of jurors, and a complete list of the prizes awarded, in subject areas ranging from raw materials (first prize, for "a process for washing and purifying coals" awarded to Bérard & Cie of France) to decorative furnishings (to the Gobelins-Beauvais Manufactory, for "originality and beauty of design of the different specimens [of tapestry] exhibited").
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$833.80 + shipping
Description: A particularly good copy of this massive volume which prints verbatim the reports by expert panels of jurors on the objects displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Medals were to be given for the best of the exhibits, a larger and more prestigious one for ?important novelty of invention or application, either in material, or processes of manufacture, or originality combined with great beauty of design?, and a smaller medal for ?excellence in production or workmanship?, and the jurors who awarded these included such notable individuals as Michael Faraday, Joseph Hooker, George Rennie, Lewis Gruner, J.G.Crace, Panizzi, Cockerell and Pugin. The volume also prints a lengthy and interesting ?Supplementary Report on Design? by Richard Redgrave, praising and criticising the general state of contemporary design as evidenced by the exhibits. Copies of it were specifically intended for presentation to exhibitors (hence the words ?presentation copy? which appear as part of the volume?s printed title). Large 8vo. (6) + cxx + 867 + (1)pp, 3 coloured plates, also 16pp of adverts for Official Exhibition Catalogue. Publisher?s gilt and blind-stamped cloth, all edges gilt (?bound for the Royal Commission by Leighton Son & Hodge, 13 Shoe Lane, London?). A very good copy.
Seller: Hugh Pagan Limited, Brockenhurst, HANTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$1924.14 + shipping
Description: Presentation edition, with a copy presented to every exhibitor at the Great Exhibition of 1851; trade editions were also produced. The book is a key contemporary document for the Exhibition, giving the jury awards and details of the 30 categories of exhibit, and was selected in Printing and the Mind of Man as the representative book for the Exhibition. Printing and the Mind of Man 331. Quarto. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, spine and covers decorated with a wreath design in gilt and blind, yellow endpapers, gilt edges. Preserved in a custom slipcase. With 3 chromolithograph plates. Bookplate to front pastedown. Expertly recased, spine ends and corners a little rubbed; a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom