The Palace and Park: Its Natural History, and Its Portrait Gallery, Together with a Description of the Pompeian CourtLatham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
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The Palace and Park: Its Natural History, and Its Portrait Gallery, Together with a Description of the Pompeian Court
Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Crystal Palace (Sydenham, London, England)
GROUND FLOOR:--SOUTH-WEST SIDE: Page
STATIONERY COURT.--COURT OF INVENTIONS 179
HARDWARE COURT 180
BIRMINGHAM COURT 181
SHEFFIELD COURT.--MINERAL MANUFACTURES COURT.--HEATH’S BATH
WHEEL CHAIR DEPARTMENT 182
GROUND FLOOR:--SOUTH-EAST SIDE:
FOREIGN GLASS MANUFACTURES COURT 182
FRENCH COURT:--CARRIAGE DEPARTMENT 183
EAST GALLERY:--CENTRAL TRANSEPT 184
SOUTH-EAST GALLERY 185
SOUTH GALLERY:--PICTURE GALLERY 186
WEST GALLERY:--CENTRAL TRANSEPT 187
NORTH TRANSEPT:--TROPICAL DEPARTMENT 189
BASEMENT:
MACHINERY 189
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS 190
EXHIBITORS’ DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE
Stationery Court.
SPECIMENS of ORNAMENTAL DESIGN for BOOK-BINDING, &c. Exhibited by JOHN
LEIGHTON, F.S.A.
GEORGE ROWNEY & Co., 51, Rathbone Place, London.--Specimens of Drawing
and Painting Materials. Specimens of Chromo-Lithography.
NATURE PRINTING.--The specimens exhibited of this new process for
obtaining life-like or physiotypic impressions of plants are mostly of
FERNS and MOSSES, but the process is still further peculiarly
applicable to the representation of the GRASSES, the LICHENS, and the
SEA-WEEDS. These results are obtained by placing the specimen to be
copied upon a plate of soft lead, with a highly-polished surface, and
passing it, at a high pressure, between hard steel rollers. The
specimen leaves its impression upon the lead, and gives not only its
outline, but also the most delicate elevations and depressions of its
surface with that sharpness and fidelity as to present a _perfect
fac-simile_ of the original specimen in its natural size. The lead
plate thus impressed--not being practically available for printing
purposes--is copied by the electrotype process, by which a copper
plate (the image on which is perfectly identical with the original
impressed lead plate) is obtained, which can be printed from at an
ordinary copper-plate press.
NATURE PRINTING was introduced into England by Mr. HENRY BRADBURY, in
1853; the first application of the process has been most successfully
exemplified by him in the magnificent folio Edition of “THE FERNS OF
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND,” NATURE PRINTED. Descriptions by THOMAS
MOORE, F.L.S.; Edited by Dr. LINDLEY. Imperial folio, with 51
Nature-Printed plates. Price £6 6_s._
[Illustration]
J. JONES & CO.,
21, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON.
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