This illustrated account reveals how the exhibition was conceived and planned, why it was a success, what it meant to the millions of visitors, challenges the common view that it symbolised peace, progress, prosperity and the emergence of an industrial middle class, and contributes to our broader understanding of modern national identities.
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This illustrated account reveals how the exhibition was conceived and planned, why it was a success, what it meant to the millions of visitors, challenges the common view that it symbolised peace, progress, prosperity and the emergence of an industrial middle class, and contributes to our broader understanding of modern national identities.
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Add this copy of The Great Exhibition of 1851: a Nation on Display to cart. $24.95, good condition, Sold by Book Forest rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Rafael, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Yale University Press.
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Good. Binding is unblemished, text block is clean, boards straight, without highlights or markings. Rubbing/chipping to dust wrapper edges. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Text and images are unmarked; pages are bright, though the page edges and end pages are lightly foxed. Binding is sturdy. Dust jacket shows some light wear around the edges, mostly along the top edge. International/Priority shipping at cost.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Book. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. The Great Exhibition of 1851, held in London's spectacular Crystal Palace, was the first world's fair and the first industrial exhibition. Tall black boards with gold-color lettering on spine, viii, 280 pp., 75 color and b/w illustrations, unclipped illustrated jacket. No shelf wear on boards, unmarked, tight binding, nice jacket, slightly flawed by a tiny tear at the top of the spine,
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