{"product_id":"9780571281640","title":"High Victorian Design: A Study of the Exhibits of 1851","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Thirst  for information, faith in commerce and industry, inventiveness and  technical daring, energy and tenacity, and a tendency to mix up religion  with visible success - all these qualities have to be remembered as one  embarks on a conducted tour of some of the exhibits of 1851.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe  Great Exhibition of 1851 at the Crystal Palace was opened by Queen  Victoria and would attract more than six million visitors. Writing one  hundred years later, Nikolaus Pevsner makes a brilliant survey of what  the Exhibition - 'the final flourish of a century of great commercial  expansion' - offered to posterity as the hallmarks of High Victorian  Design; also as windows into the mentality of mid-nineteenth-century  England.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177784197360,"sku":"9780571281640","price":12.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571281640_p0.jpg?v=1763718884","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571281640","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}