The Great Exhibition
Subtitle: "wot is to be" : or, Probable results of the industry of all nations in the year '51 : showing what is to be exhibited, who is to exhibit it -- in short, how its [sic] all going to be done
By: by Vates Secundus ...
Publisher: Published by the Committee of the Society for Keeping Things in their Places
Published: 1850
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Other titles: Probable results of the industry of all nations in the year '51
Notes: Title from cover.

Publisher's imprint is partly fictitious.  Published by Ackermann and Co.  Cf. Sala, George Augustus.  The life and adventures of George Augustus Sala, 1896, p. 213.

Etchings are hand-coloured.

Consists of 8 etched plates (13 x 72 cm.) joined together to form a continuous illustrated strip folded accordian style to create a volume of 23 leaves with the first leaf attached to the upper cover.  Each plate, except the first, forms 3 leaves when folded.  The first plate (13 x 48 cm.) forms 2 leaves including the attached first leaf.

MASS copy: Boards covered in teal-green rib-grain cloth. Upper cover onlaid with full paper hand-coloured etching of titling surrounded with illustrations similar to those within the text.  Etching with imprint: "George Aug. Sala  Inv. et sculpt.".