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3 volumes. Profusely illustrated with photogravure plates from paintings, drawings, etc.; etched plates; color photolithographic plates of architecture, in paper mats; halftones from photographs; etc.; captioned interleaves. (Folio) 41.5x28 cm (16½x11¼"), original half gilt-ruled brown morocco and cloth, covers lettered & pictorially stamped in gilt, spines tooled and lettered in gilt, marbled endleaves, all edges gilt.

Massive and superbly illustrated record of the art and architecture displayed at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. It was deemed the most marvelous World's Fair to have yet occurred, "each of these is greater than the last - Paris topped Philadelphia, and is outdone by Chicago," and it assembled the leading examples of culture from around the world. The two volumes of Art include paintings, sculpture and etchings by the leading artists of the day. The smaller Architecture volume pictures the striking venue of the Exposition, the many arcades, promenades, exhibition halls, lakes, and other features.