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(1851 LONDON). LECTURES ON THE RESULTS OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851. Delivered Before the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, at the Suggestion of H.R.H. Prince Albert, President of the Society. Series I 11 Lectures; Series II 12 Lectures.
Printed for the Society ..., 1853. Marginal browning, inscriptions, bound in gilt lettered morocco backed cloth, some rubbing. ¶ Lectures include the Inaugural Lecture by Rev. W. Whewell ‘The General Bearing of the Great Exhibition on the Progress of Art and Science; Richard Owen ‘The Raw Materials from the Animal Kingdom’; Professor James Tennant ‘Gems and Precious Stones’; Owen Jones ‘An Attempt to Define the Principals which should regulate the Employment of Colour in the Decorative Arts’; George Shaw ‘The Manufacture of Glass’; etc.
Offered for GBP 250.00 = appr. US$ 409.00 by: Francis Edwards Booksellers - Book number: 152940
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