The Great Exhibitor: The Life and Work of Henry Cole by Anthony Burton (9781851773268)

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This book gives a rounded picture of this extraordinary man. He is portrayed not only as exhibitor, museum director andeducationalist, but as a galvanic force administering salutary shocks over a wide areas of Victorian life: children's books, hackney cabs, public lavatories, choral singing, cookery, sewage disposal, to name only a few. In his own time he aroused admiration and antipathy in equal measure. For today's readers, his energy and creativity will mark him out as an inimitable Victorian phenomenon.

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The Great Exhibitor: The Life and Work of Henry Cole

Anthony Burton

Elizabeth Bonython

Description - The Great Exhibitor: The Life and Work of Henry Cole by Anthony Burton

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