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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Work Type wood engraving

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Subject Terms Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England)

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1. Gardiner's exhibition almanack for 1851.

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Creator:
Gardiner, John, 1813 or 1814–1883
Date:
[1850?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 51 x 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The world's fair; or, Children's prize gift book of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Describing the beautiful inventions and manufactures exhibited therein; with pretty stories about the people who have made and sent them; and how they live when at home.

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Date:
[1851]
Physical Description:
2 p. ., [3]-106 p. col. front., ill. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The west of England and the exhibition, 1851. By Herbert Byng Hall ... With illustrations.

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Creator:
Hall, Herbert Byng, 1805?-1883
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. col. fronts., ill., plates. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. An authentic account of the Chinese commission : which was sent to report on the Great Exhibition : wherein the opinion of China is shown as not corresponding at all with our own / the whole from the Chinese reports now collated by Sutherland Edwards, and by him translated and put into rhyme ; with about enough reason to suit the demands of the holiday season.

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Creator:
Edwards, H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland), 1828–1906
Date:
[1851]
Physical Description:
32 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.); 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The Crystal Palace: its architectural history and constructive marvels. By Peter Berlyn, and Charles Fowler, Junr.

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Creator:
Berlyn, Peter
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
viii, 92, xix, [1] p. fold front., ill., plates. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The Art journal illustrated catalogue. The industry of all nations, 1851.

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Date:
[1851]
Physical Description:
24 parts in 16. plates, ill. 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The Illustrated London News grand panorama of the Great Exhibition of All Nations, 1851.

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Date:
1851
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) : col. ill. ; 29 x 710 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. On the culture and commerce of cotton in India, and elsewhere : with an account of the experiments made by the Hon. East India Company up to the present time. Appendix : papers relating to the Great Industrial Exhibition / by J. Forbes Royle ...

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Creator:
Royle, J. Forbes (John Forbes), 1798–1858
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
xvi, 607 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The comical creatures from Wurtemberg : including the story of Reynard the fox / with twenty illustrations drawn from the stuffed animals contributed by Hermann Ploucquet of Stuttgart to the Great Exhibition.

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Date:
1851
Physical Description:
96 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The Crystal Palace, and its contents : being an illustrated cyclopæedia of the Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, 1851 : embellished with upwards of five hundred engravings : with a copious analytical index.

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Date:
1852
Physical Description:
viii, 424 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Ten centuries of art. Its progress in Europe from the IXth to the XIXth century. With a glance at the artistic works of classical antiquity, and concluding considerations on the probable influence of the Great Exhibition, and on the present state and future prospects of art in Great Britain. By Henry Noel Humphreys ...

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Creator:
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810–1879
Date:
1852
Physical Description:
1 p.l., 118 p., col. front., 11 pl. (part col.), 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A visit to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham.

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Creator:
Bishop, James
Date:
[between 1854 and 1856]
Physical Description:
15, [1] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A visit to the exhibition : in eight changeable pictures, showing its beautiful objects of art and how they were made.

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Date:
[approximately 1855]
Physical Description:
8 leaves : 8 color illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The panoramic alphabet of peace.

The panoramic alphabet of peace.
Date:
[1856]
Physical Description:
[28] pages : illustrations ; 16 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Aunt Mavor's present for a good little girl : comprising Victoria alphabet, The old Cornish woman, The cat's tea party, Little Polly's doll's house, Mother Bunch's evening party, Uncle Hugh's country house : with seventy-four coloured illustrations.

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Physical Description:
[1], 7, [1], 8, 8, 7, [1], 8, 7, [1] leaves : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

16. Centennial book to take home.

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Date:
[1876]
Physical Description:
16 p. : ill. ; 8 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts