Frontispieces & Title Pages

29x23 cm

FRONTISPIECE
THE GREAT EXHIBITION of the Industry of all Nations.
Opened by Her Majesty Queen Victoria
MAY 1^ST. 1851.

JOHN TALLIS & COMPANY. LONDON & NEW YORK.

Frontispiece to Tallis's Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World, Geographical, Political, Commercial and Statistical...edited by R Montgomery Martin Esq., John Tallis and Company, London & New York 1851.



Fine steel engraving depicting the Chrystal Palace in Hyde Park with crowds in the foreground within a decorative border.

Closed tear to lower edge just reaching the plate edge. Diagonal crease outside the plate area to upper left corner. Overall paper size: 36x26.5cm.