THE FIRST UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION (GREAT EXHIBITION.) Recollections of the Great Exhibition of 1851. 25 richly hand-colored lithographed plates of the Crystal Palace exhibition halls by W. Goodall, C. T. Dolby, Telbin & Absolon, H. C. Pidgeon, and T. H. Wilson lithographed by Day & Son. Plates measure 596x419mm; 23 1/2x16 1/2, sheets. Folio, publisher's calf-backed gilt-pictorial blue cloth, some portions darkened, some scuffing, spine quite rubbed with leather splitting; scattered light foxing and thumb-soiling, frontispiece rehinged, toned, and with one repaired clean marginal tear, previous owner's pencilled numbers on plate list and plate margins indicating their placement based upon Abbey entry. London: Lloyd Brothers, 1851