world's fair
Subtitle: or, Children's prize gift book of the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Contributors: Mason, W. G. fl. 1842-1857.; Gilbert, John, Sir, 1817-1897.; Clayton, Benjamin.
Publisher: Thomas Dean & Son; Ackermann Brothers
Published: 1851
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
Other titles: Children's prize gift book of the Great Exhibition of 1851
Notes: Date taken from St. John, Judith. Osborne collection of early children's books, v. I.

Added etched illustrated t.p. plate is hand-coloured

Preliminary etched plate is hand-coloured.  Plate is unsigned.

Includes wood-engraved illustrated initials.  Some are signed "W. G. Mason" or "WGM".  One is signed "J. Gilbert".

One wood-engraved illustration within the text is signed "B. Clayton" [i.e. Benjamin Clayton?] and another is signed "Martha Clayton Sc.".  One is signed as engraved by W. G. Mason after E. Weedon.  Others are unsigned.

Publisher's advertisements on p. 1-21 at end.

St. John, Judith.  Osborne collection of early children's books, v. 1, p. 195.

MASS copy: Bound in yellow beige morocco-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind; a.e.g.  With yellow endpapers.  With ownership inscription: "Mr. Richard John Mc[Daniel?]"