GREAT EXHIBITION - Robert HuntBiblio.com
Hunt's Hand-Book to the Official Catalogues:
1851réf. 151696London: Spicer Brothers 1851. With a floor plan of the Great Exhibition First edition of this guide to the Great Exhibition of 1851. This work includes a list of some of the displayed objects and a floor plan of the 100000 exhibits. The exhibition was visited by Charles Darwin Charles Dickens and Karl Marx. Hunt's handbook offered the attendants information on the 8 miles of exhibits from over 25 countries. His work intended to teach the reader about the Victorian material science chemistry engineering and design featured in the exhibition. Hunt enlisted the help of several professionals such as William Brough who wrote about the printing presses and Professor Edward Forbes who wrote on the uses of flax and display of wines and spices on show. "From folding pianos and controversial semi-nude Greek statues to the largest diamond in the world The Great Exhibition of 1851 was unlike anything that had been seen before. It was a triumphant celebration of the most extraordinary achievements of the Victorian age from industry culture and engineering - gathered from all four corners of the world. 'Every conceivable invention!' as Queen Victoria wrote in her private diary"Royal Parks. Robert Hunt 1807-1887 was a chemist and photographer. He worked as a professor of mechanical science for the Royal School of Mines. In 1858 Hunt and the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society founded the Miners Association. 2 vols octavo. Folding frontispiece floorplan in Vol I. advertisement leaf bound before frontispiece in Vol. I. Original blue cloth spines lettered in gilt and ruled in blind covers decoratively panelled in blind front covers with vignette of Crystal Palace in gilt pale yellow coated endpapers edges speckled brown binder's ticket of Westleys & Co. on rear pastedown. Soiling and abrasions to cloth spine ends and tips bumped a couple of gatherings proud gutter starting in several places in Vol I. A good copy. "The Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park" Royal Parks. hardcover
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