Queen Victoria's inauguration of the 1851 Great Exhibition at London's Crystal Palace drew in more than six million enchanted admirers, a hundred years later providing an exceptional case for Nikolaus Pevsner's survey of the hallmarks of High Victorian Design—a 'final flourish' of a flourishing economic century—while also illuminating the psychology of a nation in mid-Victorian England.

Architectural Press London, 1951

First Publishing

Hardcover