Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). * * * * * [Illustration: Transverse Section of the Building, showing the Interior completed.] The Crystal Palace: Its Architectural History and Constructive Marvels. By Peter Berlyn, and Charles Fowler, Junr. London: James Gilbert, Paternoster Row. mdcccli. ---- PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION BY JAMES GILBERT, 49 PATERNOSTER ROW, (UNIFORM WITH THE PRESENT VOLUME), The Curiosities and Wonders contained within The Crystal Palace. BY PETER BERLYN, ESQ. Illustrated by Several Hundred Engravings. ---- [Illustration] TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT, The Following Pages, DESCRIPTIVE OF THE ARCHITECTURAL AND CONSTRUCTIVE MARVELS OF THE STOREHOUSE OF THE WORLD'S WONDERS OF ART, SCIENCE, AND MANUFACTURE, ARE, BY PERMISSION, MOST HUMBLY DEDICATED, AS A SLIGHT TRIBUTE OF THE ADMIRATION AND GRATITUDE WHICH, IN COMMON WITH THE WHOLE CIVILIZED WORLD, ARE AMPLY SHARED IN BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS'S MOST DEVOTED, FAITHFUL, AND OBEDIENT SERVANT, THE PUBLISHER. ---- Contents. PAGE. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 1 COMMITTEE FOR ALL MATTERS RELATING TO THE BUILDING 2 LABOURS OF THE BUILDING COMMITTEE 3 THE COMPETITION DESIGNS 6 BUILDINGS USED FOR PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS IN FRANCE, GERMANY, AND ENGLAND 15 DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDING COMMITTEE'S DESIGN 21 OPPOSITION TO THIS DESIGN 24 THE TENDERS 24 HISTORY OF MR. PAXTON'S DESIGN 27 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDING 33 THE PAXTON'S GUTTERS 40 THE SASH-BARS 44 THE RIDGES 46 THE GLASS 46 THE BOX GUTTERS 47 THE ROOF GIRDERS 47 THE IRON DRILLING MACHINE 49 THE PUNCHING MACHINE 50 THE ADZING AND PLANING MACHINE 51 THE COLUMNS AND CONNECTING-PIECES 52 THE BASE-PIECES 53 THE CAST-IRON GIRDERS 54