Waring, John Burley (1823-75; English)

Illustrated book catalogued here:
Waring Manchester Art Treasures 1858 {1858} SLV [IB]

Trained as an architect and illustrator, Waring collaborated with Wyatt on the handbooks for the Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance and Italian Courts in the Crystal Palace at Sydenham (1854).

Waring was then appointed superintendent of the works of decorative art and sculpture in the Manchester Exhibition (1857), editing the 1858 commemorative volume listed above.

Later, he worked on various similar exhibitions and publications.

Refs.

For the Sydenham handbooks, see The Fine Arts Courts in the Crystal Palace (1854), second series, purchased for the MPL in 1859 [SLV A708.2 F49]. For Waring’s work on the 1857 Manchester exhibition and the 1858 volume, see linked entry as noted above. For further information on Waring, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burley_Waring (accessed 6 March 2021)