The ultimate catalogue

Any dealer, collector or curator would love to get hold of the ultimate reference catalogue of Victorian artistic design, especially if it was bound in gilt stamped red morocco and velvet housed in a purpose-built satinwood cabinet complete with four volumes of jury reports and a case of five medals.

But in fact this set of volumes of the
1851 Great Exhibition, pictured right – the summation of Vic…

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