The Book of the Fair

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ID 965100
Los 13 | The Book of the Fair
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The Book of the Fair
H.H. Bancroft, 1893
BANCROFT, Hubert Howe (1832-1918). The Book of the Fair. An Historical and Descriptive presentation of the World's Science, Art, and Industry, as viewed through the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. Chicago and San Francisco, 1893.

The "Fin de Siecle" edition celebrating the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in twenty folio volumes. Limited edition, no. 28 of 950 sets. The plates include photogravures, etchings, and photolithographs, some in color. These depict both the artwork displayed and the myriad halls and grounds themselves. The next best thing to attending the Fair in person.

Ten text volumes plus ten portfolios of plates, broadsheet folio (555 x 422mm). Title pages printed in red and black, text volumes profusely illustrated. 65 plates (only, of 100) in original mounts, printed tissue guards (tissue guards detached and occasionally chipped or repaired). Original cloth bindings and folders, front covers stamped in gilt, including the Fair's Columbus emblem (some soiling and rubbing to cloth, mostly in the first several numbers). Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.Bancroft, Hubert Howe
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