Reports by the juries on the subjects in the thirty classes into which the exhibition was divided. In four volumes.
Contributors: Redgrave, Richard, 1804-1888.; Playfair, Lyon Playfair, Baron, 1818-1898; Barry, Charles, Sir, 1795-1860 (association); Riviere & Son; Day & Son; Great Britain. Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851.
Edition: [Large type ed., large paper issue]
Publisher: Spicer Brothers, Wholesale Stationers; W. Clowes and Sons, Printers; Contractors to the Royal Commission
Published: 1852
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Notes: At head of title: Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851.

Printed and bound uniformly with the large paper issue of the Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue.

"By authority of the Royal Commission" - t.p.

Paged continuously (ccv, 1332 p.)

The arrangement of the jury reports follows that of the classification scheme of the exhibition and its catalogue and was devised by Lyon Playfair; includes Supplemental report on design (p. 708-749) by Richard Redgrave.

Large paper issue, signed in quarto, one of 250 copies printed; the reports were also issued in octavo in 2 volumes, and in an octavo edition printed in smaller type in one volume.  With additional mounted photographs not found in the octavo editions.

Chromolithographs with imprint of Day & Son.

MASS copy: With the bookplates of Ruari McLean (v. 1 only) and of the Surveyors' Institution; with additional leaf preceding t.p. in each volume: Presented by Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition of MDCCCLI to Sir Charles Barry; bound in full red morocco, blocked in gold with blue silk doublures. Bound by Riviere.
Table of contents: value: Vol. 1.  Introductory; Awards; Reports Classes 1 to IV.; value: Vol. 2.  Reports Classes V to XVI.; value: Vol. 3.  Reports Classes XVII to XXVIII. Vol. 4.  Reports Classes XXIX, XXX.