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Language: Undetermined Staff View: MARC Record OCLC Number: 1009020690 Subjects:\r\nCrystal Palace (Hyde Park, London, England) Depictions.\r\nCrystal Palace (Hyde Park, London, England).\r\nGreat Exhibition (1851 : London, England) Depictions.\r\nGreat Exhibition (1851 : London, England) Guidebooks.\r\nGreat Exhibition (1851 : London, England) Periodicals.\r\nGreat Exhibition (1851 : London, England).\r\nOwnership inscriptions England 1851.\r\nWood engravings England 1850-1851.\r\nPeriodicals England 1850-1851.\r\nSummary:\r\nWeekly periodical devoted to the history and description of the Great Exhibition of 1851; fully illustrated with wood-engravings.\r\nGenre:\r\nOwnership inscriptions\r\nWood engravings\r\nPeriodicals\r\nGuidebooks.\r\nPeriodicals.\r\nNotes:\r\n\"A chief and present object of our journal is to prepare the public to visit the Great Exhibition ... We shall give brief popular accounts of the several raw materials .. of the rise and progress of special manufactures ... of machinery as it is and was, with memoirs of the great inventors and improvers of machinery\" (p.[1]).\r\nContinuous pagination (iv, 416, 220 p.) ; page numbers on pp.130-131 and pp.134-135 and on pp.138-139 and pp.142-143 in vol. 1 reversed ; pp.57-8, 153-4, 169-70, 185-6, and 249-50 folded.\r\nNew pagination starts at issue no. 27.\r\nNo more published.\r\nPrice £1 1s 6d for complete set; 3d per issue, 4d stamped for issues no.1 to 26; from no. 27 4d per issue, 5d stamped.\r\nTitle from t.p. to Vol. 1 ; subtitle on caption of original issues is : A weekly illustrated recorder of inventions, designs and art manufactures.\r\nWith index to first volume and advertisements.\r\nCopy [B] previously shelved at PP.16.G; transferred from old catalogue.\r\nLibrary also holds a microfiche copy of NAL's copy [A].\r\nLibrary holds two copies; copy [A] is complete, with ownership inscription on t.p.: C Wentworth Dilke.\r\nLibrary's copy [A] bound in black cloth, ca. 1952 (NAL collation); some issues inscribed in ink at head: Govt. 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