Masterpieces of industrial art & sculpture at the International Exhibition, 1862 / selected and described by J.B. Waring ; 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
Published
London : Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen and to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 6, Gate Street, Lincoln's-Inn Fields, 1863
Published to commemorate the exposition of 1862 held in South Kensington. A record of the furniture, jewellery, silver, clocks, and all aspects of the decorative arts. Contains 301 chromo-litho plates of the artefacts in the exhibition each with accompanying text leaf, a fine record of high Victorian taste
Notes
Contains 301 chromolithograph plates plus a chromolithograph added t.p. for each volume
English text, parallel French translation
Half red morocco; marbled paper sides and endpapers; author, title and decorations in gilt on spines; gilt edges
Spine title: Masterpieces of the International Exhibition, 1862
Bound in half morocco with intricate gilt spines, gilt page edges, marbled endpapers and cloth covered boards