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Price: US$196.27 + 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$405.63 + 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$850.52 + 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