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041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Smith, Thomas
245 1 0 $a Recollections Of The British Institution, For Promoting The Fine Arts in The United Kingdom: With Some Account Of The Means Employed For That Purpose; And Biographical Notices of the Artists who have received Premiums, &c. 1805 - 1859. By Thomas Smith, Author Of An Historical And Topographical Account Of The Parish Of St.-Mary-Le-Bone; Hand-Book To Harrow-On-The-Hill; Etc. [Epigraph]
246 3 # $a Recollections of The Rise and Progress of The British Institution
260 # # $a London: $b Simpkin & Marshall, Stationers' Hall Court; And Edward Stanford, 6, Charing Cross. $c MDCCCLX. $c [1860]
300 # # $a [12], 231, [1] p.; $c 220 mm. (Octavo.)
505 0 # $a [Half-t., t.p., dedic.] - Contents - Books Of Reference Consulted ... - Preliminary Remarks - [Text] - Addenda - Index; Obituary; [colophon].
508 # # $a The printer is named on the verso of the title page and in the colophon: 'Westminster: Printed By Thomas Brettell, Rupert Street, Haymarket.'

The work is dedicated by Thomas Smith to Beriah Botfield.
510 0 # $a P. Fullerton, 'Patronage and pedagogy: the British Institution in the early nineteenth century', in Art History, 5 (1982), p.59-72.
520 2 # $a The publishers have given a variant half-title: 'Recollections of The Rise and Progress of The British Institution.'

The text gives an account of the aims and constitution of the British Institution, notices of its members and of some of the works exhibited at its exhibitions.
563 # # $a 19th-century brown cloth, upper and lower covers decorated in blind, upper cover lettered 'Recollections Of The British Institution'; rebacked in 1989 by A. Wessely, spine lettered 'The British Institution'.
610 2 4 $a British Institution
653 # # $a Societies - Associations - Artists - Patronage - Sponsorship - Exhibitions - Art and society - Charitable societies - Charities - Great Britain - London - History - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Art history - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Stanford $e publisher
700 1 # $a Brettell $e printer
700 1 # $a Botfield $e dedicatee
700 1 # $a Wessely $e binder
710 2 # $a Simpkin and Marshall $e publisher