ABSTRACT
The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the outstanding public event of the Victorian era. Housed in Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, it presented a vast array of objects, technologies and works of art from around the world. The sources in this edition provide a depth of context for study into the Exhibition.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part IV|258 pages
Guides to the Exhibition and Other Material Addressed to Visitors
part |22 pages
Advice For visitors Published in Contemporary Periodicals
part |26 pages
Poetry and Musical Entertainment for Visitors
part |12 pages
Religious Tracts for Visitors
part V|137 pages
Visitors’ Accounts
part |13 pages
Visitors Came, Paid and Consumed
part |13 pages
Accounts in Religious Periodicals
part |23 pages
Contrasting Perceptions