Author: John Timbs
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Category : Great Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Describes the origin and progress of the Great Exhibition of 1851, including the French national expositions from 1797 to 1849, the origin and construction of the Crystal Palace, the lay-out of the exhibits and the objects exhibited. There is also a description of the close of the exhibition. The appendix contains a list of the medal winners, tables of the daily number of visitors to the exhibition including the amount of money received at the doors on each day and a financial statement of the proceeds and expenditure of the exhibition. Finally a statistical note on the official catalogue is quoted from The Edinburgh review. Includes index.
The Year-book of Facts in the Great Exhibition of 1851
Author: John Timbs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Describes the origin and progress of the Great Exhibition of 1851, including the French national expositions from 1797 to 1849, the origin and construction of the Crystal Palace, the lay-out of the exhibits and the objects exhibited. There is also a description of the close of the exhibition. The appendix contains a list of the medal winners, tables of the daily number of visitors to the exhibition including the amount of money received at the doors on each day and a financial statement of the proceeds and expenditure of the exhibition. Finally a statistical note on the official catalogue is quoted from The Edinburgh review. Includes index.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Describes the origin and progress of the Great Exhibition of 1851, including the French national expositions from 1797 to 1849, the origin and construction of the Crystal Palace, the lay-out of the exhibits and the objects exhibited. There is also a description of the close of the exhibition. The appendix contains a list of the medal winners, tables of the daily number of visitors to the exhibition including the amount of money received at the doors on each day and a financial statement of the proceeds and expenditure of the exhibition. Finally a statistical note on the official catalogue is quoted from The Edinburgh review. Includes index.
The Year-book of Facts in the Great Exhibition of 1851
Author: Great Exhibition. 1851, London
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art
Author: Charles W. Vincent
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Year-book of Facts in Science and the Arts
The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art
Author: John Timbs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Great Exhibition, 1851
Author: Jonathon Shears
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526115719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The Great Exhibition, 1851: A Sourcebook is the first anthology of its kind. It presents a comprehensive array of carefully selected primary documents, sourced from the period before, during and after the Exhibition in Hyde Park in 1851. Drawing on contemporary newspapers and periodicals, the archives of the Royal Commission, diaries, journals, celebratory poems and essays, many of these documents are reproduced in their entirety, and in the same place, for the first time. The book provides an unparalleled resource for teachers and students of the Exhibition and a starting point for researchers new to the subject. Subdivided into six chapters - Origins and organisation, Display, Nation, empire and ethnicity, Gender, Class and Afterlives - it represents the current scholarly debates about the Exhibition, orientating readers with helpful, critically informed, introductions. What was the Great Exhibition and what did it mean? Readers of The Great Exhibition, 1851: A Sourcebook will take great pleasure in finding out.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526115719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The Great Exhibition, 1851: A Sourcebook is the first anthology of its kind. It presents a comprehensive array of carefully selected primary documents, sourced from the period before, during and after the Exhibition in Hyde Park in 1851. Drawing on contemporary newspapers and periodicals, the archives of the Royal Commission, diaries, journals, celebratory poems and essays, many of these documents are reproduced in their entirety, and in the same place, for the first time. The book provides an unparalleled resource for teachers and students of the Exhibition and a starting point for researchers new to the subject. Subdivided into six chapters - Origins and organisation, Display, Nation, empire and ethnicity, Gender, Class and Afterlives - it represents the current scholarly debates about the Exhibition, orientating readers with helpful, critically informed, introductions. What was the Great Exhibition and what did it mean? Readers of The Great Exhibition, 1851: A Sourcebook will take great pleasure in finding out.
The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art
Author: Charles W. Vincent
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art
A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: The general library. Additions from 1843-1852. An index of subjects. An index of authors and books
Author: London Institution. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Catalogue of Books in the Mercantile Library, of the City of New York
Author: Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description