Written for children in the year of the Great Exhibition, this gift book walks young readers through Paxton’s Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, describing the statues, fountains, silks, cutlery, machines and curiosities sent from Britain and every nation, with little stories about the people who made them and how they live at home. Its national portraits carry the assumptions of 1851.
A delightful period souvenir of the Victorian age’s great showcase. Download the free EPUB.