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Digby Wyatt, The industrial arts of the nineteenth century: a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation  at the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry, 1851; dedicated, by permission, to his Royal Highness the Prince Albert (London: published by Day and Son, lithographers to the Queen, [1851-1853])","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"Concerning the whole volume: \r\nPrice: 17 guineas, half bound. With index.\r\nCover title: The industrial arts of the XIX century for the Great Exhibition of 1851.\r\n\"Shortly after the opening of the Great Exhibition the publisher called upon the author ... stating his desire to demonstrate, upon a great scale, the capabilities of colour-printing as an auxiliary to industrial education ...\" (Postscript).\r\nIllustrated with 158 chromolithographs plus an added chromolithographed t.p. in each volume; each plate with its own imprint.\r\nEach plate is accompanied by a short descriptive and explanatory text.\r\n\"It was originally intended to divide the work into thirty-eight parts, each containing four plates, to be delivered to the public at intervals of a fortnight. The work was also issued in five divisions, each comprising eight parts; and, in order to render these divisions of equal extent, it was found necessary to increase the number of parts to forty, embracing the whole, 160 plates. 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