Exhibition of 1851
Subtitle: public subscription.
Contributors: Great Britain. Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. Executive Committee.
Publisher: Executive Committee of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851]
Published: 1850
Place of publication: [London
Language: eng
Notes: "The Executive Committee have received orders from the Royal Commissioners, appointed for the promotion of this Exhibition, to publish the following communication:"--Caption.

States: "'The Royal Commissioners have felt it their duty, at this their first meeting, to take into their immediate consideration the propriety of confirming the Contract which has been entered into with the Messrs. Munday ... After hearing, however, the statements made by individual members of the Commission, -- after communicating with the Executive Committee, -- and after full consideration of the whole subject, -- the Commissioners have come to the conclusion that it will be more consonant with the public feeling, and therefore more conducive to the objects for which the Commission has been appointed, to exercise the power reserved, and at once and absolutely to terminate the Contract with the Messrs. Munday ... It now rests with the public to determine, by the amount of their contributions, the character of the proposed Exhibition, and the extent of benefit to industry in all its branches which will result from it.  It is desirable that subscriptions for this great purpose be immediately commenced throughout the United Kingdom, and the result ascertained with the least possible delay.'".

Letterpress sheet printed on both sides proclaiming the Royal Commission's decision to terminate the contract between the Society of Arts and Messrs. Munday, and to appeal to the country for subscriptions to carry out the Great Exhibition of 1851.  The original pecuniary contract entered into to ensure funding for the Great Exhibition proposed for 1851 was agreed upon in 1849: "After much fruitless negotiation with several builders and contractors, an agreement was made between the Society of Arts and the Messrs. Munday, by which the latter undertook to deposit £20,000 as a prize fund, to erect a suitable building, to find offices, to advance the money requisite for all preliminary expenses, and to take the whole risk of loss on certain conditions."--Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851.

Includes wood-engraved British Royal coat of arms printed at head of text  on p. [1].