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J.B. Waring : Dedicated by Command to Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. / Masterpieces of Industrial Art & Sculpture at the International Exhibition, 1862. Selected and Described by J. B. Waring, Architect. Chromo-Lithographed by and under the Direction of W. R. Tymms, A. Warren, and G. MacCulloch, from Photographs Supplied by the London Photographic and Stereoscopic Company, Taken Exclusively for this Work by Stephen Thompson. [VOLUMES 1 & 3 ONLY]

Day & Son, London, 1863.

Original publisher’s red gilt morocco boards with gilt title set between gilt royal and floral designs within two oval-shaped double gilt and blind borders separated by gilt floral tooling, surrounded by double gilt and blind bordered circles enclosing continent names on shields and gilt floral tooling, all within a double gilt and blind square border; spine in five densely-gilt compartments of raised bands and gilt royal and floral motifs, with gilt text in each compartment, inner dentelles with double blind lines, all edges gilt. , Covers lightly worn, otherwise in very good condition, text and plates are clean and crisp., Folio., P. Volume 1. (2), lith. title, blank, title, printer’s imprint, to the queen, blank, preface (2), index to plates (2), index to letterpress (14), 100 ff., (4); Volume 3. (2), lith. title, blank, title, printer’s imprint, index to plates (2), 101 ff., (4)., With 203 colour lithographs, including two lithograph title pages, all presenting exhibits from the Great London Exhibition of 1862., Volume : Vols I & III (of 3).

Text in English and French.
J. B. Waring organized several sections of the Great London Exhibition of 1862, including glass, pottery, furniture, and metalwork, as represented in the lithographs of this book published the following year.


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