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Jr. Charles Fowler
Best known today for a rare mid-19th-century book on the Great Exhibition building, this little-documented writer helped tell the story of one of Victorian Britain’s most famous structures. His surviving work offers a compact, vivid window into the engineering ambition behind the Crystal Palace.
1 Audiobook
The Crystal Palace : its architectural history and constructive marvels
by Peter Berlyn, Jr. Charles Fowler
About the author
Very little biographical information could be reliably confirmed about this author from the sources reviewed. What is clear is that Charles Fowler Jr. is credited as a co-author of The Crystal Palace: Its Architectural History and Constructive Marvels, a book published in 1851 with Peter Berlyn.
That work focuses on the design, construction, and significance of the Crystal Palace in London, the landmark building created for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Modern catalog and public-domain listings continue to attribute the book to Peter Berlyn and Charles Fowler Jr., which is why his name still appears in library and ebook records today.
Because dependable personal details were not readily available, it is safest to remember him through the book itself: a concise contemporary account of one of the most celebrated feats of Victorian architecture and engineering.