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Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851: Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes into which the Exhibition was Divided, Vol. I 1852
Photographically illustrated book | 36.5 x 28.5 x 8.8 cm (book measurement (inventory)) | RCIN 2800000
Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851: Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes into which the Exhibition was Divided, Vol. I 1852
Detailed object viewer
Red leather bound volume, with gilt tooling and blue silk endpapers. Title on upper cover, 'Exhibition MDCCCLI Reports by the Juries' and V&A monogram. Spine with 4 raised bands and gilt tooling with title on spine, 'Exhibition MDCCCLI Jury Reports Vol. I'.
It contains five photographic plates and it is one of four volumes illustrated with original calotypes (salted paper prints), made by Claude-Marie Ferrier and Hugh Owen between September and November 1851.
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Creator(s)
Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 (corporate author)
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36.5 x 28.5 x 8.8 cm (book measurement (inventory))
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Presented to Queen Victoria
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Object type(s)
- printed & manuscript material
- books
- book: full leather bound
- book: full leather bound in morocco
- book: full leather bound in red morocco
- book: full leather bound in morocco
- book: all edges gilt
- book: binding
- book: binding with gold tooling
- book: binding with blind tooling
- book: doublures
- book: silk doublures
- book: full leather bound
- books
- printed & manuscript material
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