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THE
WORLD'S FAIR;
OR,
CHILDREN'S PRIZE GIFT BOOK
OF THE
GREAT EXHIBITION
OF 1851.
THE
WORLD'S FAIR;
OR,
CHILDREN'S PRIZE GIFT BOOK
OF THE
GREAT EXHIBITION
OF 1851.
DESCRIBING THE
BEAUTIFUL INVENTIONS AND MANUFACTURES
EXHIBITED THEREIN;
WITH
PRETTY STORIES ABOUT THE PEOPLE
WHO HAVE MADE AND SENT THEM;
AND
HOW THEY LIVE WHEN AT HOME.
LONDON:
THOMAS DEAN AND SON 35, THREADNEEDLE-STREET, AND
ACKERMANN AND CO. 96, STRAND.
THE WORLD'S FAIR;
OR,
CHILDREN'S PRIZE GIFT BOOK
OF THE
GREAT EXHIBITION.
What a pretty picture we have in the first title page, of the GreatExhibition in Hyde Park! This gigantic structure is built of iron,glass, and wood; but as, at a distance, it seems to be made entirelyof glass, it is called the "Crystal Palace." Does it not look like oneof those magnificent palaces we read about in fairy tales?
The Great Exhibition is intended to receive and exhibit the mostbeautiful and most ingenious things from every country in the world,in order that everybody may become better known to each other thanthey have been, and be joined together in love and trade, like onegreat family; so that we may have no more wicked, terrible battles,