International Exhibitions

1851 LONDON. Ballantine, M.W.

A reply to the Rev. John Cumming, D.D. on the opening of the new Crystal Palace on Sundays.

London. James Gilbert. 1853. 8vo. pp. 16. Disbound. Front and back page dusty, light fold marks.

Ballantine argues that Crystal Palace, far from being a place of dissipation is an 'aid in maturing the national thirst for literature and science' which it would be beneficial to open on the Sabbath.

£25

ref: 30768

1851 LONDON.

Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851. Reports by the Juries on the subjects in the thirty classes into which the Exhibition was divided.

London. William Clowes. 1852. 4to. pp. cxx, 867, 15. 3 colour plates, text illustrations. Gilt-stamped red cloth, stained and dusty, re-spined with original creased backstrip laid down. damaged title leaf re-margined. Internatlly good, a sound serviceable copy.

Over £20,000 was put aside for prize awards. 30 classes of exhibit were judged by a panel ... (more)

£145

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1851 LONDON.

Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, 1851 Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue. In three volumes. The Reports of the Juries on the subjects in the thirty classes into which the exhibition was divided.

London. Spicer Brothers. Clowes and Sons. 1851 - 1852 6 vols. Large 4to. pp. cxcii, 508 numbered ... (more)

This is the rare large format Imperial Quarto edition of the Official Catalogue. Volume 1 deals with ... (more)

£4,500

ref: 29799

1851 LONDON.

Le Palais de Cristal. Journal illustre de l'Exposition de 1851. Deuxieme edition.

London and Paris. 1851. Folio pp. 368 (complete). Numerous illustrations. Publisher's cloth, re-spined with original backstrip laid down. Short tear to margin of half title otherwise very good.

The complete run of 23 issues with the Table of Contents for the whole set in the last number ... (more)

£580

ref: 25980

1851 LONDON.

Official Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the works of Industry of all Nations. Second corrected and improved edition.

London. Spicer Brothers. 1851. Small 4to. pp.4 (inc. front wrapper), 320, 34 (ads. inc. back ... (more)

The catalogue provides a list of the exhibitors and goods displayed. Cheaply produced as a handbook for the exhibition, it has now become rare. Loosely inserted a 4 page price list of various exhibition publications.

£350

ref: 28059

1851 LONDON. Wyatt, M. Digby.

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.

London. Day and Son. 1851. 2 volumes, folio. 2 chromolithographed title pages & 158 coloured ... (more)

Covers sculpture, metalwork, textiles, porcelain, glass, earthenware, architectural decoration, furniture, wood and ivory carving, and Indian objects.

£1,800

ref: 28180

1853 DUBLIN.

The Exhibition of Art-Industry in Dublin, 1853.

London. Virtue & Co. 1853. 4to. 64 pp. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's gilt embossed cloth, small stain on cover, tear at base of spine, fore corners bumped; internally very good..

Material on the Dublin exhibition is scarce.

£220

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1857 MANCHESTER. Waring, J. B. (editor).

Art treasures of the United Kingdom from the Art Treasures' Exhibition, Manchester...with essays by Owen Jones, Digby Wyatt, A. W. Franks, J. B. Waring, J. C. Robinson & G. Scharf, Jr.

London. Day & Son. 1858. Folio. 16, (12), 44, 32, 34, 82 pp. 101 colour plates including title page chromolithographed by F. Bedford and printed by Day and Son. Engravings in text. Publisher's decorated calf, silk end-linings.

A fine collection of chromolithographs showing the sculpture and objects displayed at the 1857 Art Treasures' Exhibition held in Manchester in 1857.

£750

ref: 28178

1862 LONDON.

The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the International Exhibition 1862.

London. James S. Virtue. 1862. 4to. pp. xii, 324. Over 1,000 wood engravings. Modern cloth and endpapers.

£120

ref: 29598

1867 PARIS. Edmond, Charles.

L'Egypte a l'Exposition Universelle de 1867 \%

Paris. Dentu. 1867. Large 8vo. pp. 384. 4 engraved plates. Publisher's red morocco. Spine in six gilt decorated compartments, covers with framed star and crescent in gilt. Aeg.

Includes a catalogue of the Egyptian exhibits at Paris Exposition of 1867.

£400

ref: 33948

1867 PARIS. Mesnard, Jules.

Les Merveilles de L'Exposition Universelle de 1867 Arts ~ Industrie.

Paris. Ch. Lahure. 1867. Large 4to, 2 vols. in one. pp. 243; 239. Illustrated throughout with industrial, applied and fine arts exhibits. Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Occasional light foxing, otherwise fine. A eg.

'The Department of Art provided the exhibition with a great deal of publicity, not all of it good ... (more)

£400

ref: 28337

1867 PARIS. Rimmel, Eugene.

Souvenirs de L'Exposition Universelle.

Paris/London. E. Dentu/Chapman & Hall. 1868. 8vo. pp. [4], 409, [5], xiv (ads.). Frontispiece ... (more)

£400

ref: 28341

1877 LYON. Giraud, J. -B.

Recueil descriptif et raisonne des principaux objets d'art ayant figure a l'Exposition Retrospective de Lyon 1877.

Lyon. Imprimerie Alf. 1878. Folio. 83 heliogravure illustrations plates. Still in the printer's wrappers and badly worn and stained portfolio.

This set of plates was sent by the printer to Giraud - the label is still on the wrappers. The text was not included. The only letterpress here is on the front of the portfolio. Covers the gamut of fine and decorative arts, from painting to textiles to ceramics to arms.

£200

ref: 33546

1878 PARIS. Collard (Photographer).

Souvenir de l'Exposition Universelle 1878.

Paris. 1878. Large oblong folio album. 24 original albumen prints (average size 26 x 34 cm) mounted on individual sheets, each one labelled. Modern half-morocco.

Photographer's portfolio of the 1878 Paris Exhibition and its remarkable features, such as the ... (more)

£3,000

ref: 20668

1878 PARIS. Liebert, Alphonse J.

Souvenir de l'exposition de 1878.

Paris. 1878. Oblong folio. 75 mounted original photographs by Alphonse J. Liebert. Contemporary morocco, spine and forecorners rubbed, with some loss to base of spine, binding loosened. A.e.g. Front cover with gilt-stamped name "H. P. Ellsworth".

Liebert spent the majority of his career photographing the environs of Paris. He moved to Paris in ... (more)

£4,500

ref: 23907