Crystal Palace
Subtitle: exterior.
Contributors: Thomas Nelson & Sons
Series: Nelsons' pictorial guide-books for tourists; Nelsons' view-books for tourists
Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons
Published: 1867
Place of publication: London; Edinburgh; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Crystal Palace (London, England) -- Pictorial works.
Other titles: Crystal Palace :
Notes: Date based on statement on p. 11: " ... The southern wings are devoted to Dining-Rooms and Retiring-Rooms; the northern were destroyed by fire on 31st of December 1866, but are in course of re-erection ... ".

T.p. printed within thin rule border.  T.p. and text printed in blue.

At head of t.p.: "Nelsons' Pictorial Guide-Books for Tourists.".

Plates are unsigned "Nelson prints", i.e. pen-and-ink lithographs printed in a brownish purple ink with the ground and sky coloured by two wood blocks. For more on this process, see Gascoigne, Bamber. How to identify prints, 1986, p. 30-31.

All plates are with lithographed captions.

MASS copy: In original glazed lavender paper wrappers.  Upper wrapper embossed with decorative border design incorporating publication statement and series title: "Nelson's View-Books for Tourists".  Nelson print with title and image showing "Lake and Boat House-Crystal Palace" pasted within decorative border on upper wrapper.  With presentation label to the Massey College Library by "Mrs. S. P. Bourinot  Simcoe, Ontario  1980".