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The World's Fair Or Children's Prize Gift Book Of The Great Exhibition Of 1851 Describing The Beautiful Inventions And Manufactures Therein; With Pretty Stories About the People Who Have Made and Sent Them; and How They Live When at Home

1851Best.-Nr. FF6384Thomas Dean and Son 1851. ~Original blue cloth rebacked in near-matching blue cloth with original backstrip laid down. Gilt lettering and elaborate gilt decor to front board striking despite some rubbing to cloth. Gilt lettering to spine rubbed and with some loss near top spine where there are areas of loss to original cloth. Gilt lettering to rear board rubbed and the remains of ornate blindstamped design now faint. Some wear and rubbing to boards and board corners. All edges gilt. Small 8vo 12.4 x 18.2cm. Hinges sound. Original primrose yellow endpapers slightly soiled but uncracked at gutters. Inscription to front flyleaf: 'To dear Clara this small volume is presented with the best wishes of her affectionate Friend F Grout' . Dec. 18th 1851'. Mild dampstaining to blank front endpages only. Frontis and additional engraved title page with vignette both attractively hand-coloured. Decorated initials and numerous woodcut in-text illustrations throughout. Minor scattered foxing. 21pp. of publisher's advertisements bound in to rear. Loose 20th-century newspaper clipping with photograph of Crystal Palace at p. 64 with some offset browning to pp. 64-65. Published anonymously and undated; date taken from WorldCat and supported by 1851 inscription to flyleaf. A remarkable and revealing record of one of the defining events of Victorian Britain and of Victorian attitudes to the wider world with very attractive hand-colouring. First edition. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders trackable others on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 1st edn Printed for the author. Hardback. Hardback. Very Good. 106 21pp. Thomas Dean and Son Hardcover

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