(GREAT EXHIBITION.) Recollections of the Great Exhibition of 1851.

2088151: THE FIRST UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION (GREAT EXHIBITION.) Recollections of the Great Exhibition of 1851. 25 richly hand-colored lithographed plates of the Crystal Palace exhibition halls by W. Goodall, C. T. Dolby, Telbin & Absolon, H. C. Pidgeon, and T. H. Wilson lithographed by Day & Son. Plates measure 596x419mm; 231/2x161/2, sheets. Folio, publisher's calf-backed gilt-pictorial blue cloth, some portions darkened, some scuffing, spine quite rubbed with leather splitting; scattered light foxing and thumb-soiling, frontispiece rehinged, toned, and with one repaired clean marginal tear, previous owner's pencilled numbers on plate list and plate margins indicating their placement based upon Abbey entry. London: Lloyd Brothers, 1851

the great celebration in book form of the famous crystal palace exhibition. first edition. The detailed plates include such exotic halls as The Indian Court and Jewels, the China Court, The Turkish Court, as well as the pride of Europe represented by the French Court, The Colebrookedale Dome, and Birmingham Court. Abbey, Scenery 246.