1851 and the Crystal Palace : being an account of the Great Exhibition and its contents; of Sir Joseph Paxton; and of the erection, the subsequent history and the destruction of his masterpiece / written by Christopher Hobhouse and fully illustrated from contemporary drawings.
Christopher Bernard Hobhouse (d.1940)
Category
Books
Date
1937
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3257298
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, [2], 181, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates (folded) : ill. ; 23 cm. Provenance: Pencil inscription on front free endpaper verso: "Fairhaven / from / Malcolm Bullock. / Anglesey Abbey / November 1942" [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century quarter publisher's light blue cloth; floral patterned coral paper over boards; dark blue lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Christopher Bernard Hobhouse (d.1940), author