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The industrial arts of the nineteenth century : a series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation, at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry, 1851 ... / by M. Digby Wyatt ...

Accession number
PML 146712-13
Creator
Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby), Sir, 1820-1877.
Published
London : Day and Son, 1851-1853.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Added chromolithographed t.p.'s, with titles: Industrial arts of the XIXth century at the Great Exhibition MDCCCLI; The industrial arts of the nineteenth century at the Great Exhibition MDCCCLI; v. 2 has chromolithographed t.p. only.
Originally issued in forty parts from 1851 to 1853.
Illustrated with 158 tinted and chromolithographs, chiefly executed by lithographers Francis Bedford, J. Sleigh, F. Moras, and J.A. Vinter after drawings by various artists; printed by Day & Son, each plate accompanied by 2 p. leaf of descriptive letterpress.
Vol. I: viii, [144] p., 72 leaves of plates; v. II: xii, [172] p., 73-158 leaves of plates.
Library's copy has both added chromolithographed t.p.'s bound into v. 2.
Description
2 v. (158 leaves of plates) : ill. (part col.) ; 51 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Red morocco tooled in gilt by Webb and Hunt of Liverpool.
Classification
Department