{"id":5113,"date":"2011-05-25T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/?p=5113"},"modified":"2011-05-24T17:17:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T16:17:32","slug":"crystal-palace-guidebooks-and-descriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/2011\/05\/25\/crystal-palace-guidebooks-and-descriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace guidebooks and descriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guidebooks to the 1851 Exhibition<\/h4>\n

Guide-book to the Industrial exhibition, with facts, figures and observations on the manufactures and produce exhibited<\/a><\/em> (Partridge & Oakey, 1851),\u00a0also on Google books<\/a>.\u00a0A general guidebook with particular emphasis on the manfacturing processes and machiery on show, and arranged according to these rather than national stands.<\/p>\n

Hunt’s hand-book to the official catalogues: an explanatory guide to the natural productions and manufactures of the Great Exhibition of the industry of all nations, 1851<\/a><\/em>, vol 1 by Robert Hunt (Spicer Brothers, 1851).\u00a0A somewhat mixed arrangement, as part of it follows the layout of the the building, and the rest is done by categories of goods. Perhaps the most unusual exhibit to come to light so far has been George Merriweather’s Tempest Prognosticator<\/a> (p.355), a sort of leech-powered barometer.
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London In All Its Glory: Or, how to Enjoy London During the Great Exhibition<\/a><\/em>, by Henry Green Clark (1851).\u00a0Essentially straightforward guidebook to London that aimed to cash in on the Great Exhibition by opening with a couple of pages devoted to it. It is however quite comprehensive, covering not just the average tourist sites but also various different types of institution and even some unexpected landmarks, such as the Rotherhithe-Wapping tunnel (p. 107) – now on the East London Line and much used by your truly as it goes from Crystal Palace. Unfortunately marred by some dodgy scanning.<\/p>\n

Tallis’s illustrated London: in commemoration of the Great Exhibition of All Nations in 1851. Forming a complete guide to the British metropolis and its environs. Illustrated by upwards of two hundred steel engravings from original drawings and daguerreotypes<\/a><\/em>, by William Gaspey (1851) has a similar aim, but overall superior execution, with some very interesting-looking descriptive essays about different parts of London, a good place index, and the excellent illustrations one would expect from Tallis’s.<\/p>\n

Fireside facts from the Great Exhibition: being an amusing series of object lessons on the food and clothing of all nations in the year 1851<\/a><\/em> (Houlston & Stoneman, 1851?).\u00a0The story of the Crystal Palace and the exhibition. The focus on the foodstuffs exhibited seems rather curious, but for those people interested, it is very detailed on the subject.<\/p>\n

The Crystal Palace, its architectural history and constructive marvels<\/a><\/em>, Peter Berlyn, Charles Fowler Jr (James Gilbert, 1851).\u00a0A very detailed book on the design and construction of the palace, with some interesting illustrations and plans.<\/p>\n

Dickinsons’ comprehensive pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851<\/a><\/em>, by Joseph Nash, Louis Haghe, David Roberts (Dickinson Brothers, 1852).\u00a0A coffee-table retrospective with amazing, vividly coloured and very detailed illustrations that give a very good impression of what an amazing spectacle the Great Exhibition must have been. This is the Russian exhibit:<\/p>\n

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\nA warning: if you want to download the book, the file is enormous and the pdf snarls everything up. The jpeg-2000 zip file has all the images on separate pages and is somewhat easier to handle. I’m intending to post a gallery of the pictures and accompanying text soon.<\/p>\n

The Crystal Palace in Sydenham<\/h4>\n

The Crystal palace and park in 1853: what has been done, what will be done. Addressed to intending exhibitors<\/a><\/em>, by The Crystal Palace Company.\u00a0A pamphlet rather than a guidebook, but it doesn’t really fit into another category.<\/p>\n

Guide to the Crystal Palace and Park<\/a><\/em>, by Samuel Phillips, 2nd edn (Crystal Palace Library and Bradbury & Evans, 1854). Also on Google books<\/a>.\u00a0The official guide, illustrated by P. H. Delamotte, and covering the building and contents of all the different courts. See also Guide to the Crystal Palace and its Park and Gardens<\/a><\/em>, by Samuel Phillips. A newly arranged and entirely revised edition by F. K. J. Shenton (Crystal Palace Library and Bradbury & Evans, 1858)<\/p>\n

Also by the Crystal Palace Company:<\/p>\n

The Crystal Palace Penny Guide<\/a><\/em> (1863)<\/p>\n

The ten chief courts of the Sydenham Palace<\/a><\/em> (1854)<\/p>\n

And the Company’s guides to the individual courts:<\/p>\n

The Pompeian Court in the Crystal Palace<\/a><\/em>, described by George Scharf (1854)<\/p>\n

The Nineveh Court in the Crystal Palace<\/a><\/em>, described by Austen Henry Layard (1854). Also on Google books<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Greek Court erected at the Crystal Palace by Owen Jones<\/a><\/em>, described by George Scharf (1854)<\/p>\n

The Mediaeval Court at the Crystal Palace<\/a>,<\/em> described by Matthew Digby Wyatt and John Burley Waring (1854)<\/p>\n

The Byzantine and Romanesque court in the Crystal Palace<\/a><\/em>, described by M.D. Wyatt and J.B. Waring (1854). Also on\u00a0Google books<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Egyptians in the time of the Pharaohs. Being a companion to the Crystal Palace Egyptian collections<\/a><\/em>, by Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson (1857)<\/p>\n

The Natural History Department of the Crystal Palace Described<\/a>.<\/em> Ethnology by R. G. Latham. Zoology and Botany by Edward Forbes (1854)<\/p>\n

The Portrait Gallery of the Crystal Palace<\/a><\/em>, by Samuel Phillips (1854). Also on Google books<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And two others:<\/p>\n

Routledge’s guide to the Crystal Palace and Park at Sydenham<\/a><\/em> (1854). Also on\u00a0Google books<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Crystal Palace. Myers’ Grand Hippodrome. Account of the stables, great course for chariot races, steeple-chases, hurdle races, etc., all other arrangements at the Crystal Palace, with plan. Anecdotes of John Cooper’s feats of lion taming & elephant training, description of elephant swimming and bathing, great equestrian pantomime, little red riding Hood, scenes in the circle, and parades and processions of gorgeous chariot<\/a>. <\/em>A curious little pamphlet, but it contains one of the best plans I’ve seen of the palace at Sydenham. There’s no date but the plan gives us clues, as it features both\u00a0High Level Station<\/a> (opened on 1 August 1865) and the North Wing, which burnt down on 30 December 1866.<\/p>\n

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Guidebooks to the 1851 Exhibition Guide-book to the Industrial exhibition, with facts, figures and observations on the manufactures and produce exhibited (Partridge & Oakey, 1851),\u00a0also on Google books.\u00a0A general guidebook with particular emphasis on the manfacturing processes and machiery on show, and arranged according to these rather than national stands. Hunt’s hand-book to the official […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46],"tags":[128,532,106,530],"class_list":["post-5113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crystal-palace","tag-archive-org","tag-crystal-palace","tag-google-books","tag-russia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2MwXo-1kt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5113"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5170,"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions\/5170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}