Title & Author:

The Crystal Palace : with twenty-four illustrations.

Publication:

London ; Edinburgh ; New York : T. Nelson and Sons, [approximately 1867]

Description:

46 pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates : 24 color plates (lithographs with wood engraving) ; 11 x 17 cm.

Series:

Nelsons' pictorial guide-books for tourists

Notes:
Date based on statement on p. 8: " ... The southern wings are devoted to Dining-Rooms and Retiring-Rooms; the northern were destroyed by fire on 31st of December 1866, but are in course of re-erection ..."
T.p. printed within thin rule border. T.p. and text printed in blue.
At head of t.p.: "Nelsons' Pictorial Guide-Books for Tourists."
Plates are unsigned "Nelson prints", i.e. pen-and-ink lithographs printed in a brownish purple ink with the ground and sky coloured by two wood blocks. For more on this process, see Gascoigne, Bamber. How to identify prints, 1986, p. 30-31.
All plates are with lithographed captions.

Subject:

Crystal Palace (Sydenham, London, England) Pictorial works.
Crystal Palace (Londres, Angleterre) Ouvrages illustrés.
Great Exhibition

Form/genre:

Illustrated works
Lithographs Specimens Great Britain Ca. 1867.
Wood engravings Color Specimens Great Britain Ca. 1867.
Gold blocked bindings Specimens Great Britain Ca. 1867.

Added entries:

Thomas Nelson & Sons.
Nelsons' pictorial guide-books for tourists.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 3484
Call No.: 0000643
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library main y 3483
Call No.: 0000642
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available