Title: Dry, but Rewarding (with patience)
Product review: This is a general study of the first "World's Fair" and industrial exhibition. The book is divided into three sections: Making, Meaning and Memory. They cover: the difficulties in preparing and constructing the exposition and its unique home (the 'Crystal Palace'): the significance of the exhibition as it reflected the views of world, economy and class that reigned in Great Britain at the time: and the after-effect that it had on the psyche of that nation - well into the twentieth century. The text requires a certain knowledge of history that could make it hard on the non-Anglophile, but it is well researched and noted. My copy of the book is hardbound and printed on a sturdy matte paper that reproduces the illustraions well. I wish, however, that those illustrations were larger because they are quite evocative and intelligently chosen - particularly the color lithographs from souvenir books of the day.
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