Author: AGNEW William (Chairman of the Committee)
Title: Royal Jubilee Exhibition Manchester 1887. Fine Art Section.
Description: Manchester, 1887. 151pp, illustrated fp, all pages decorated with gilt. 27x20, blue cloth with glt lettering and royal crest, glt edges (Presentation Copy). Cloth grubby and rubbed, small sections missing at top and bottom of spine, some pages browning, couple of stamps from Middle Temple, but still a nice item. Held to mark Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, the 1887 Manchester Exhibition was a great success in terms of visitor numbers. This is a presentiation edition of the catalogue for the Fine Art section - it was generally available in paper wraps - listing the more than 2100 works on show. The production, by The Excelsior Works in Manchester, is lovely.

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