COLE Henry - R. REDGRAVE - Richard THOMPSON - J. EVELYN DENISON - Digby WYATT - Charles KNIGHT ...and many others :
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"11. London, printed by George Eyre and Wiliam Spottiswoode, 1856, 3 vols in-8°, 525 pp + 1 folding plan ; 405 pp ; 446 pp. Uniformly bound in modern paper covered boards, leather title label on smooth spines. Ex-library copies with minimal markings. Official British reports on the first continental world exhibition organised in Paris in 1855 under the guidance of Napoleon III. Many of the reports were written by specialists in the field ; e.g. William Fairbairn on machinary in general ; Rev. R. Willis on machinery for woven fabric ; naval constructions by Francis Fowke....."