Exhibition of 1851
Subtitle: arrangement of articles in the building.
Contributors: Wyatt, M. Digby Sir, 1820-1877.; Great Britain. Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. Executive Committee.; William Clowes (Firm)
Publisher: Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851]
Published: 1851
Place of publication: [London
Language: eng
Notes: Letterpress text printed on both sides of sheet, with numbering in upper left corner of recto: "[No. 1. 1st Jan. 1851.--9000.]".

With printed signature: "By order of the Executive Committee, M. Digby Wyatt. Secretary.", dated "Exhibition Building, Hyde Park, 1st January 1851.".

"No choice remained but to adopt a geographical arrangement; and it was not until so late a period as the month of December that the Commissioners were enabled to decide the principles upon which the articles should be arranged in the Building.  Circumstances connected with the form of the Building itself, the absence of the necessary information from Foreign countries, the great pressure for time, and above all the vital importance of punctually opening the Exhibition on the first of May, induced the division of the ground floor of the Building into two parts--the one being awarded to Foreign countries, and the other to the British colonies and the United Kingdom."--Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851, p. 24.