An exhibition catalog examining Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace of 1851, its structural and architectural precedents, and its influence on subsequent iron-and-glass construction. Published by Smith College Museum of Art/Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1952. Second edition. 8vo (6 × 9 inches), pictorial wrappers, a few b/w illustrations. Organized by Smith College Museum of Art and MIT, with an essay by distinguished architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock, tracing the technological innovations and historical significance of one of the foundational monuments of modern architecture. Pictorial wrappers reproducing a nineteenth-century view of the Crystal Palace interior. From the working library of architectural historian Carol Herselle Krinsky, with her ownership inscription dated 1977 at the head of the title page. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities. Contents near fine.
An exhibition catalog examining Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace of 1851, its structural and architectural precedents, and its influence on subsequent iron-and-glass construction. Published by Smith College Museum of Art/Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1952. Second edition. 8vo (6 × 9 inches), pictorial wrappers, a few b/w illustrations. Organized by Smith College Museum of Art and MIT, with an essay by distinguished architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock, tracing the technological innovations and historical significance of one of the foundational monuments of modern architecture. Pictorial wrappers reproducing a nineteenth-century view of the Crystal Palace interior. From the working library of architectural historian Carol Herselle Krinsky, with her ownership inscription dated 1977 at the head of the title page. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities. Contents near fine.
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