VIEWS OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE AND PARK SYDENHAM FROM DRAWINGS BY EMINENT ARTISTS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY P. H. DELAMOTTE WITH A TITLE PAGE AND LITERARY NOTICES BY M. DIGBY WYATT

Book Description

London: Day and Son. 1854. H Decorated Boards.. Fine.. First Series (all published). London: Day and Son, 1854. Folio, original decorated boards, rebacked and recornered in morocco with a gilt-lettered spine. Edges of boards worn. Hand-colored lithograph frontispiece of the Pompeian Court , tinted pictorial engraved title page and 22 tinted lithograph plates of interior, exterior and park views of the Crystal Palace , which featured a series of "courts", each illustrating the art and architecture of a time and place in history. The most spectacular was the Egyptian Court with its sphinxes and enormous statues. The Crystal Palace, designed by Joseph Paxton and constructed of iron and acres of glass, was an engineering marvel of its time, built to house the Great Exhibition in 1851 in Hyde Park. It was dismantled and rebuilt on a site in Sydenham in southeast London, reopening in June 1854 as an enormously popular attraction.

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