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Author: (Exhibitions - London 1851) Illustrated Exhibitor
Title: The Illustrated Exhibitor, a tribute to the world's industrial jubilee ; comprising sketches, by pen and pencil, of the principal objects in the Great Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations, 1851.
Publication: London, John Cassell (1851) (nos.1-30).
Price: £395
Reference: 10165
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Large 8vo. xliv + 556pp, folding woodcut frontispiece, 9 other folding woodcut plates (of which the largest is creased and a little defective at fold lines), many woodcut text ills. Contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards. Jill Allibone's copy.
This was published as a periodical in thirty weekly issues between 7 June 1851 and 30 December 1851 (all present here, together with 44 pages of preliminaries issued by the publishers when publication of the individual issues was completed). It is an excellent record of the exhibits at the Great Exhibition and must have served as the immediate model for Cassell's similar publication on the 1862 Exhibition. Two special features are a series of nine articles by Charles Fowler on the Exhibition building and its construction, which foreshadow the book on the subject by Berlyn and Fowler, and a series of ten letters about the Exhibition by the French politician Jérôme Adolphe Blanqui.