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186453725London: Day & Son 1864. First Edition. Large octavo 26cm. Publisher's embossed cloth-covered boards decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; xxiv447pp; 431 wood-engraved text-figures; 39 inserted leaves of engraved plates most folding. Neatly rebacked; some spotting and soiling to boards spine cloth slightly dulled. Endpapers soiled with faint marginal tidemark to preliminary leaves but in all a tight complete Very Good copy. Ownership signature on front endpaper of a William John Lafferty Belfast dated 1866. <br /> <br /> A significant work infrequent in commerce. Especially valuable for its coverage of early railway technology an area in which the author was himself expert as he had served as a Consulting Engineer for the Great North of Scotland Railway as early as 1853. The book's four divisions - Railways; Textile Machinery; Metal and Wood Manufacturing Machinery; and "Machinery in General" are each profusely illustrated with both text figures and folding plates. The final plate at end of text is a "General Plan of the Western Annex" where mechanical exhibits were housed. Day & Son unknown
190023855Paris 1900. Hardcover. Very good condition. A photographic record of a young American man's tour of Europe and the Paris Exposition accompanied by many beautiful street images of Paris.<br /> <br /> The silver gelatin prints of Paris by the unidentified photographer include wonderful images of Notre Dame cathedral the Eiffel Tower the Opera House Toreador Palace the Church of the Madeleine the Champs Esys and the Arc de Triumph. There are many street scenes including the Rue de Rival L'Avenue de loper Place de la Republic monuments and architecture.<br /> <br /> The tour begins in Scotland and includes a departure at the train station wonderful shot of the train and passengers waiting on the platform as well as thatched roof cottages and gardens castles Edinburgh and London. It concludes with images of the main square in Brussels the Belgian country side and Holland including the iconic windmill shot. The final shot is on board ship the photographer with 2 fellow travelers looking very proud of himself.<br /> <br /> The album 8 x 6". Images 3 x 3 1/2" loosely inserted into card stock mounts. Very good condition; previous owner book plate Michael E. Kate. Three quarter leather and buckram boards the spine leather lacking but the binding intact. hardcover
186727354London: Illustrated London News 1867. First printing. Print. Very good overall. A panoramic view of Paris centered on the oval building of the International Exposition of 1867 held there from April 1st to November 3rd. After the resounding success of Britain's Great Exhibition of 1851 and the comparative failure of the 1862 London International Exhibition Napoleon decided to surpass their ancient rival. The result was that seven million people came to see the Paris International Exhibition of 1867. <br /> <br /> Large woodcut panorama "Supplement to the Illustrated London News July 6 1867." 16 3/4 x 47 1/4". Backed on archival tissue repairing some minor marginal tears. Period folds flattened. Illustrated London News unknown
18573220484<p><em>Small folio; pp. 4 vii i 3-300 4 'Index' with two chromolithographic frontispieces showing the exterior and interior of the exhibition building bound within the preliminaries; numerous wood-engraved illustrations throughout the text; a little browned and spotted in places; in the original publisher's red cloth ornamented and lettered in gilt blind-stamped fleurons in the corners; hinges repaired and overall a good copy.</em></p><p>1857 was a turning-point in the history of art appreciation. The exhibition with its 16000 items on display made the public aware of the fabulous wealth of pictures by old masters and objects of art of every kind hidden away in English country houses and at the same time it opened up a new period of art-historical studies. The preface is at pains to extol the education value of the exhibition and to make known to the people of England the art-wealth of their own country and by inducing a greater familiarity with the beautiful to increase and extend its refining influence.</p><p>gThe Art-Treasures Examinerg contains a series of articles probably under the editorship of the journalist William Blanchard Jerrold who contributed articles on various subjects. Other contributors included Henry Ottley on art criticism schools of painting and engraving; the poet Charles Swain contributing short plays on art; James Astbury Hammersley on watercolour art; George Jackson on photography; Charles Allen Duval on the spirituality of art; G.W. Anthony 'Peregrine Sketchly' on British landscapes and modern painting; a 'History of Caricature' by the radical Dr Robert Blakey and possibly as the most interesting contribution a series of fourteen autobiographical articles by Henry Merritt 1822–1877 the picture conservator and art critic who had risen from a very poor background: 'Where my shoes came from was never satisfactorily explained'.</p><p>British landscape painters and the modern gallery by gBritish Art and Artistsg; a gHistory of Caricatureg by the radical Dr Robert Blakey gModern Galleryg by G.W. Anthony and possibly as the most interesting contribution a series of fourteen autobiographical articles by Henry Merritt 1822–1877 the picture conservator and art critic who had risen from a very poor background: 'Where my shoes came from was never satisfactorily explained'.</p> Manchester, Alexander Ireland & Co., 22, Market Street, … W. H. Smith & Son, 186, Strand, London,
188235602New York: D. Appleton and Company 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 1 vi 610 pages 3 pages advertisements 1. Errata page located between pages 342 343. Green cloth hardcover with illustrated gilt title inside a gilt circle on the front cover. Gilt title on the spine. Some rubbed spots to the cloth covers and spine. Light edge wear to the cloth extremities. The frontispiece is vertically creased and foxed. Pages 7 and 8 are loose. Binding cords visible in several sections but no other loose pages. Hinges are in good condition. Small piece of tape on the edge of pages 321 and 327. Light toning to the text. <br /> <br /> Illustrated with frontispiece engraved portrait of H. I. Kimball 4 plates in text folding "Plat of the Grounds and Buildings International Cotton Exposition Atlanta" engraved plate - "The Compound Tubular Steam Boiler Gold Medal Awarded." 2 more engraved plates a few illustrated advertisements and a folding plan - "Model of the Willimantic Company's Works at Willimantic Conn." Detailed contents make up this comprehensive report including history speeches reports agricultural sections a variety of forms and documents lists of groups awards committee members and much more. <br /> <br /> A nice inscription written on the front blank end sheet from Samuel Inman one of Atlanta's leading citizens of the period Inman Park in Atlanta is named after Samuel Inman. Inscription reads - "Henry S. Cave Compliments of Saml M. Inman Treasurer Atlanta Ga. June 23 1884." H. S. Cave from Atlanta inscription is written on the verso of the frontispiece. Another owners name in pencil on the front paste down "Augusta Wylie King." A later owner's address mailing label located in the upper left corner front paste down. From the New Georgia Encyclopedia:<br /> <br /> Atlanta held its first exposition named the International Cotton Exposition in Oglethorpe Park in 1881. The city then had fewer than 40000 residents and the primary sense in which the first exposition was “international†was the display of cotton plants from around the world. Nevertheless Atlantans were eager to host the 1881 exposition to promote investment and to help the city toward its goal of becoming an industrial center which was a primary component of Grady’s “New South†concept. Although attendance was lower than expected fewer than 200000 in paid attendance during its two-and-a-half-month run city leaders demonstrated that they could work together to host a major event and that Atlanta was serious about its role in textile production at a time when the North was beginning to grow dissatisfied with the efficiency of southern cotton processing. The exposition displayed new crop planters and cotton seed cleaners along with a model of Eli Whitney’s original cotton gin and speakers addressed the crowds about agricultural technology and political reforms. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
188053063Paris: Impr. Nationale 1880. First edition. 8vo. 67 pp. Original printed wrappers which are toned at the edges with a few chips and creases. Text is unopened. INSCRIBED by the author. Alphonse Davanne is a most important figure in the early history of photography. Born 1824 in Paris he was a founding member of the Société Française de Photographie the first photographic society in the world and subsequently its vice president and then president. His early collaborations were involved with photolithography and by 1854 he had mastered that process. His next experiments were on developing a direct positive process. Davanne served as the president of the jury for the photographic section of this International Exhibition.<br /> <br /> Largely concerned with the history cameras and equipment and the latest advances in photomechanical processes etc. <br /> <br /> Roosens and Salu No. 3697. Impr. Nationale unknown
189461008San Francisco: H.S. Crocker Co. 215-219 Bush St. 1894. Fifteen parts in one vol. Oblong folio. 13.5 x 10.25 in. 240 pp unpaginated. 227 photo plates 13 double-page. Recent black cloth Portfolio No. 13 cover mounted on front cover as title endpapers renewed all fascicles were bound in adjustable slide post-binder as evidenced by discrete slits at gutter margin some occasional minor tears slight edgewear to textblock from thumbing textblock cropped poorly diagonally when originally bound still a VG- copy from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. First edition of this exceptional and complete photographic souvenir series capturing the California Midwinter International Exposition which was the first World’s Fair in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park prior to the Earthquake & Fire. Taber 1830-1912 was the official photographer of the Fair and he has captured with vividness the excitement and variety of the events in the Fair with night shots of the Electric Tower piercing the darkness the action in the Forty-Niner Mining Camp which featured “Monarch†the stuffed Grizzly Bear who was showcased in the venue along with logging scenes at Lake Tahoe Hopfields in Ukiah CA the bedraggled Apache confined to the “Arizona Indian Village†along with a portrait of a Chinese Opium Den in San Francisco’s Chinatown. H.S. Crocker Co., 215-219 Bush St., hardcover
1900101161Paris: Ludovic Baschet 1900. Hardcover. All volumes tight and clean with slightly varying color leather bindings; overall very good with modest sunning and chafing to spine heads. A consecutive run of 10 volumes. Octavos in half leather and marbled paper boards; illustrations; 24 cm. Approx. 300 page per volume; chiefly b&w illustrations. Marbled edges. In French. Handsome leather bindings. Original issues; not reprints. The series ceased in 1914 and purportedly comprised at least 16 volumes. Postage cost billed at our cost. Please inquire. Set weighs 15 lbs. ¶ Salons; Art -- France -- Paris -- Exhibitions. Art. Beeldende kunsten. Line blocks. Collotypes prints Exhibition catalogs. Ludovic Baschet hardcover
18762305160021John Filmer; Press of McCalla & Stavely 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. Scarce 2 volumes in 1. Rebacked. 394 pages. 62 pages : illustrations portraits ; 31 x 24 cm. Illustrated plates. Numerous advertisements. Minor dampstaining. Historical sketches illustrations of Philadelphia and official programme of days religious services processions pageants exercises receptions and entertainments connected with the bi-centennial celebration of the founding of the commonwealth of Penn's on the days of October 22d 24th 25th 26th and 27th 1882 at Philadelphia. The first part describes the history of the planning and development of the exhibition. Note: This is only the first part of the exhibition catalogue. John Filmer; Press of McCalla & Stavely, hardcover
1892ZAEHNSDO013226Macmillan London. 1892. Third edition. Octavo. 158 pages. Numerous illustrations many full-page by Hugh Thomson.Fine period binding by Zaehnsdorf of full green morocco with foliate gilt to covers and turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. On the rear pastedown in the gilt stamp Zaehnsdorf used in their exhibition bindings.Foxing heavy in places. Spine slightly faded. Very good indeed. Macmillan, London. unknown
190049488Paris: Société Anonyme des Imprimieres Lemercier 1900. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Full blue calf with gilt spine rules/lettering in compartments gilt board rules and inner dentelles. 560pp 31pp 23pp 56pp pictorial ads. All edges gilt. Illustrations marbled endpapers sewn-in red/green/yellow page marker. Near fine. Spine only faintly shellacked a turn-of-the-century practice with hand-lettered paper shelf label near foot. Exceptionally handsome tight first edition of this detailed guide to American participation of this world's fair to end all world's fairs held in Paris between 12 April and 12 November 1900. Like all world's fairs its intention was to celebrate mankind's accomplishments and advances in every field imaginable -- but with the debut of the new century it was felt appropriate to celebrate accomplishments of the preceding century as well. This remarkable copy bears a red-bordered 4½" X 3/4" colophon slip typed in blue tipped to an inner flyleaf noting that "Twenty-five copies of this catalogue have been bound in this form for special distribution. This copy is numbered 11." Recipients of this specially-bound edition were likely important politicos of the day. The name of this special recipient has been giltstamped on the front board: "WILLIAM B. ALLISON SENATOR." From the collection of William B. Allison 1829-1908 the powerful Iowa Republican who as U.S. senator from that state 1873-1908 was one of the "big four" who controlled the Senate; as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee for most of those years he championed tariff legislation and co-authored the Bland-Allison Act of 1878; as member of the Senate Finance Committee he was often courted by U.S. presidents to hold cabinet positions. Early 20th century bookplate on front pastedown notes "This book is part of Allison Memorial Collection Gift of Mrs. Jennie A. Brayton" and until deaccessioned was part of Allison's non-circulating collection at his hometown public library across the street from his Dubuque residence. According to Leland L. Sage in his 1956 biography "William Boyd Allison: A Study in Practical Politics" Allison owned "hundreds of books on government economics history banking finance and the tariff as well as volumes of American and English literature. An omnivorous reader Allison doubtless read most of these volumes if only for relaxation from the strain that accompanied his efforts to solve the many problems facing the Nation. Alexander Hamilton was his guidepost in finance Robert Burns his favorite poet and 'The Cotter's Saturday Night' his favorite poem." A superb copy of this rare edition with gilt as fresh and bright as the day applied. Société Anonyme des Imprimieres Lemercier hardcover
187560874Philadelphia PA: H.J. Toudy 621 & 623 Commerce Street 1875. One oblong atlas folio hand-coloured lithograph sized 25 x 20.5 in. still retaining fairly wide borders printing below centered image colour-tinted border to image some very minor age toning dustsoiling still an excellent copy preserved in the original quarter-sawn oak wood frame 33.5 x 25.5 in. retaining the original glass newly backed in archival foam core framed w/ archival matting. First edition of this impressive first edition birds-eye view of the buildings and sites Centennial International Exhibition with the fairgrounds set above the Schuykill River. This view depicts the Exposition before it was completed and the Halls featured include the Main Building Machinery Hall Memorial Hall Horticultural Hall and Agricultural Hall. Once the construction was complete Toudy issued another version with fuller buildings as well as some changes to the foreground and center of the image. Toudy fl. 1865-1878 first established with William Toudy his lithography firm at 503-505 Chestnut and later merged with Geroge Wl. Ward & Co. in 1872 lasting less than 2 years. Henry became the sole owner by 1875 and were well known for their atlases maps and city views and he worked on several Stone & Stewart County Atlases from 1866-1877 as well as many of the Mid-Atlantic general surveys. They also managed to outlast a lawsuit over a print based on the drawing by Hermann Schwarzmann architect of the Centennial grounds entitled “Bird’s Eye View†after copyrighting this image in 1875. Firm was destroyed by fire in 1878. Worldcat locates 2 copies AAS DLC another version located at Library Company of Philadelphia. H.J. Toudy, 621 & 623 Commerce Street, unknown
1876154861876. CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. The Masterpieces of the Centennial International Exhibition. Volume I: Fine Art by Edward Strahan. Volume II: Industrial Art by Professor Walter Smith. Volume III: History Mechanics Science by Joseph M. Wilson. Phila.: Gebbie & Barrie 1876. 1st ed. 4to. Three vols. Profusely illus. with engraved plates and reproductions. 366; 521; 375pp. A very good set in orig. 3/4 leather. unknown
185460414New York & London: G.P. Putnam and Co. Sampson Low Son & Co. John F. Trow Printer & Stereotyper 49 Ann Street 1854. Folio. xi 1 207 1 pp. Engraved frontisp. extra-illustrated engraved title 5 engraved plates 1 colour woodcut plate for tiles another engraved plate of Fresnel lenses integral to pagination with 500 woodcut-engraved text illustrations decorations. Elaborately decorated & gilt embossed cobalt-blue publisher’s cloth decorative gilt lettering front & back covers a.e.g. rebacked w/ upper portion of original spine laid-back down corners renewed resewn flyleaves expertly silked wear to lower fore-edges minor stain to a few leaves in rear of textblock upper fore-edge still a VG- copy. First edition possible first state including the colour plate & extra-illustrated title & frontispiece which are not present in some printings of this lavishly illustrated catalogue of America’s first exposition inspired and patterned after the 1851 Crystal Palace Great Exhibition in London. Mixed in with the familiar Arts & Crafts material which filled the early expositions including industrially produced glassware metalwork ceramics and more the 1853-54 Exposition served as a vital presentation of American invention and technology including Royal Earl House’s innovative printing telegraph with its piano-style keyboard a Henry Fitz refractor telescope John Whipple’s daguerreotypes shot of the Moon at Harvard College and even a publicity stunt featuring Elias Otis demonstrating his safety elevator by dramatically cutting the rope holding the cage preventing is descent when they deployed. The 1853-54 Exhibition was also vital to the development of iron construction in America including the striking octagonally planned domed structure by Castensen and Gildermeister as well as plans submitted by Paxton Downing & Vaux Bogardus and Hoppin all illustrated here. After the fair closed in November 1854 the New York Crystal Palace sporadically held tradefairs until 1858 when the iron and glass building burned to the ground in less than 30 minutes. See: Coleman The Exhibition in the Palace a Bibliographical Essay Bulletin of the New York Public Library Sept. 1960 pp. 459-477; William Ashworth Scientist of the Day -- New York Crystal Palace Linda Hall Library July 14 2022. G.P. Putnam and Co., Sampson Low, Son & Co., [John F. Trow, Printer & Stereotyper, 49 Ann Street], hardcover
189461007San Francisco: H.S. Crocker Co. 215-219 Bush St. 1894. Fifteen parts in one vol. Oblong folio. 14.5 x 10.75 in. 240 pp unpaginated. 227 photo plates 13 double-page. Recent black cloth Portfolio No. 7 cover mounted on front cover as title endpapers renewed all fascicles were bound in adjustable slide post-binder as evidenced by discrete slits at gutter margin some occasional minor tears slight edgewear to textblock from thumbing still a VG copy from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. First edition of this exceptional and complete photographic souvenir series capturing the California Midwinter International Exposition which was the first World’s Fair in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park prior to the Earthquake & Fire. Taber 1830-1912 was the official photographer of the Fair and he has captured with vividness the excitement and variety of the events in the Fair with night shots of the Electric Tower piercing the darkness the action in the Forty-Niner Mining Camp which featured “Monarch†the stuffed Grizzly Bear who was showcased in the venue along with logging scenes at Lake Tahoe Hopfields in Ukiah CA the bedraggled Apache confined to the “Arizona Indian Village†along with a portrait of a Chinese Opium Den in San Francisco’s Chinatown. H.S. Crocker Co., 215-219 Bush St., hardcover
185253659London: William Clowes & Sons 1852. First Edition. First printing. Stout octavo 26cm. Publisher's red cloth-covered boards decoratively stamped in gilt and blind; a.e.g.; cxx1-86716pp; 3 inserted leaves of chromolithographic color plates. Mild foxing to preliminary leaves with occasional spots of scattered foxing to text margins. Else a remarkably bright and well-preserved copy of this massive volume easily Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Full transcript of expert jurors' verdicts on the thousands of entries of items in the Great Exhibition of 1851. Prefaced with an index to the divisions list of jurors and a complete list of the prizes awarded in subject areas ranging from raw materials first prize for "a process for washing and purifying coals" awarded to Bérard & Cie of France to decorative furnishings to the Gobelins-Beauvais Manufactory for "originality and beauty of design of the different specimens of tapestry exhibited". William Clowes & Sons unknown
187562481Philadelphia: Gebbie & Barrie 1875. First Edition. First printing. Quarto 29cm in three volumes. In original brown half-leather brown cloth-covered boards stamped in gold on fronts titles and pictorial stamps on spines in gilt all edges marbled; marbled endpapers; vol. I: xii 366pp; vol. II: x 521pp; vol. III: clxxxvi ii 375pp; with engraved frontispiece title page and 43 plates on inserted leaves in vol. I engraved frontispieces in vols. II and III and extensive in-text wood engravings throughout. Unfaded sound and clean with minor rubbing and a few insignificant marks and bumps to boards: around Near Fine. <br /> <br /> A beautiful set of this lavish catalogue of the "arts and industries exhibited" at the 1876 Centennial Exposition the first world's fair to be held in the United States. Nearly 10 million visitors attended this demonstration of American industrial prowess. The catalogue also includes extensive essays on the history of international exhibitions and on the preparation of the fair. Vol. I: Fine Art including photography. Vol. II: Industrial Art i.e. decorative arts. Vol. III: History Mechanics Science. RYDELL 370. 62481. Gebbie & Barrie unknown
1889206601889. Very good condition. An original pen and ink drawing showing Sir Edgar Boehm's 1834 - 1890 statue 'Young Bull and Herdsman' on a large plinth at the foot of the grand staircase at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition of 1888. <br /> <br /> A stylishly-dressed Victorian crowd of exhibition viewers strolls about the great hall with the statue on a large plinth highlighted with white accents. With the title penned below the image. Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm 1834 - 1890 is recognized for his colossal statues including one of Queen Victoria executed in marble 1869 for Windsor Castle the monument of the duke of Kent in St. George's Chapel the statue of Carlyle on the Thames embankment at Chelsea and the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington at Hyde Park Corner. Boehm is also listed as a British exhibitor in the Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Centennial International Exhibition at Melbourne 1888 p111.<br /> <br /> The Young Bull and Herdsman was acquired by the Melbourne Art Gallery and Museum and was then gifted to the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria where it is today outside the RASV offices in the show grounds.<br /> <br /> Unsigned with a small circular mark roughly at center of drawing and a closed tear through the caption but not affecting the drawing; mounted on an album page. 9 3/4 x 8 1/2" unknown
181952180Portland OR: n.p. July 18 1902. One panoramic silver gelatin photograph printed on matte finish thick photographic stock sized 8 x 24 in. preserved in the original dark stained wood frame sized 10.25 x 26.5 in. with very faint title inscription in white ink below image in clear cursive hand very minor damage & loss to the very lower right corner of image still VG copy expertly cleaned with new archival backing. This exceedingly scarce original photograph records the site selection inspection by the Lewis & Clark Exposition Board of Directors July 18 1902 the day after the Site Subcommittee had recommended on July 17 1902 that the Board choose City Park for the Exposition site. In fact many different sites were proposed at the meeting including Henry Corbett’s preference for City park while the Ladd interests advocated for a site along Hawthorne Boulevard. Nonetheless the Board adjourned into executive session and as a result of a last minute proposal by Henry Dosch it decided that they would examine the Guild’s Lake site in detail as evidenced by this photograph showing the several board members standing upon the Electric Railway line tracks on the Willamette Heights next to the land proposed for development by the Scottish-American Investment Company. When the Board reconvened after an August hiatus the vote was 6-2 in favor of Guild’s Lake. Robert Livingstone who owned the Scottish-American Investment Company set about with his real estate development partners Russell & Blyth to build a group of Arts & Crafts homes designed by Emil Schacht in the Willamette Heights subdivision which would inspire Portland residential architecture in the decades following the Exposition. Peter Guild 1797-1870 led his family over the Oregon Trail in 1847 lost a herd of cattle to the Oregon Territorial militia during the Cayuse Indian War and eventually homesteaded on Guild’s Lake constructing a large octagon block house which proved to be a very popular Public House and later the site for the 1905 Lewis & Clark Exposition. See: Jim Heuer & Roy Roos The Emil Schacht Houses in Willamette Heights: The Cradle of Arts and Crafts Architecture in Portland 2002 pp. 2-10; Thacher The Site of the Lewis and Clark Exposition The Pacific Monthly Vol. 7 pp. 210-212; Finn J.D. John Long-lost Guild’s Lake was Once Portland’s Water Wonderland Offbeat Oregon October 21 2012. n.p., unknown
18842111902160200730Nakano Kei kura 1884. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Nakano Kei kura paperback
187739388Stockholm 1877. Tvær-folio. Samt. halvlæderbind med forgyldt tekst på permer. Med 55 plancher de fleste vandskjoldede. Folio oblong. Contemporary half calf bindig with gilt lettering to boards. With 55 plates depicting the World exhibition of 1876. Most plates with dampstaining. hardcover
189360194Chicago: W.B. Conkey Co. Publishers to the Exposition 1893. Two vols. 8vo. 506; 506 pp. Frontisp. both vols. With maps photo plates. 1st vol. -- Full dark brown morocco over beveled boards gilt ornamented borders gilt lettering & ownership stamp on front cover gilt lettering on spine gilt inner dentelles marbled endpapers t.e.g. minor rubbing edgewear front hinge tender rear hinge just starting very slight uniform interior toning as usual still VG- copy w/ presentation ALS on Conkey private letterhead presenting to Charles M. Kurtz dated Oct. 28th 1893; 2nd vol. -- Full flexible Bible calf dark purple silk moire endpapers gilt lettering stamped front cover & spine a.e.g. w/ dark maroon cloth d.j. backed in dark purple silk moire a F/F presentation copy from Conkey to Kurtz w/ inscription on half-title preserved in open-backed slipcase. First editions thus presentation copies and the second copy with publisher’s note indicating this was No. 91 of 275 Editor’s Deluxe copies signed & presented to Charles McMeen Kurtz 1855-1909 at the time one of Halsey Ives’s Assistants in the Fine Arts Department of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition Art Director of the 1894 St. Louis Exposition and later Museum Director at the Buffalo Museum of Art 1905-1909. Conkey writes in the letter for the first volume to Charles Kurtz “I send you herewith a copy of the Catalogue which you may deem to file away as a reminder of many hours spent in order that others might see intelligently the grand work which you with others have done in the Art Department.†Walter Blakesley Conkey had founded the printing house in 1877 occupied many different job printers and in 1890 absorbed the Illinois Printing & Binding Co. and in Jan. 1893 signed the contracts awarding him exclusive rights for printing the myriad of catalogues and handbooks for the Columbian Exposition receiving a deposit of $ 10000. W.B. Conkey Co., Publishers to the Exposition, hardcover
18629027602London: Clay & Lea 1862. Hardcover. Very good. Expertly rebacked with original spine pieces. Gilt titling on spine is still bright. New endpapers. <br/><br/> Clay & Lea hardcover
188959410Paris: n.p. 1889. 4to. 10.5 x 10.75 in. Six individual puzzles individually postcard sized approx. 3.5 x 4.75 in. w/ colour chromolithograph image dissected onto nine wooden pieces each 1 small piece has been supplied in facsimile for upper corner of the Cairo street puzzle. All contained w/in the original deep red paper-covered wooden box raised bed w/in the box to hold the puzzles lid w/ decorative gilt title lettering minor shelfwear very minor rubbing still a VG nearly complete artifact. Very scarce original souvenir puzzle game issued for the fourth great Paris World’s Fair celebrating through pomp and events the Centennial of the French Revolution and the storming of the Bastille. The Exposition was intended to pull France out of a ruinous recession and attracted over 61000 exhibitors as well as 32 million visitors many of whom came to view the iconic Eiffel Tower. This puzzle celebrates several of the pavilions at the Exposition including Palais des Beaux-Arts designed by Joseph Brouvard filled with painting and flanking the Eiffel Tower providing visitors; the Palais de Trocadero held over from the famed 1878 Exposition celebrating the renewal of Paris following the Franco-Prussian War; as well as the Ministere de la Guerre which featured an Arms & Armour exhibition as well as displays of knightly tournaments assorted uniforms and cannon. The Maison Egyptienne and Rue au Caire would fuel the Orientalist movement and fascination with the Middle East among artists writers and the industrial arts well into the 20th Century. These boxed puzzle games were quite popular souvenirs as well as educational tools in the Belle Epoque and have become remarkably scarce. No copies in Worldcat. n.p., unknown
18513220148<p><em>Lithograph strip panorama consisting of four sheets conjoined measuring 12 x 230 cm overall some light dust-soiling in places; folding into publisher's original boards the upper cover with an illustration of a showman in military attire drumming up an audience for a show consisting of a Punch and Judy-style booth with what appear curiously to be marionettes rather than glove-puppets dancing on the stage spine expertly repaired covers slightly marked but nevertheless still a good example.</em></p><p>Rare panorama consisting of 75 captioned vignettes of the people of many nationalities idly wasting time or misbehaving themselves in mostly harmless ways: "A Highland Gentleman practising the Art of Boozing" "John Bull sleeping on the National Debt" "A Hindoo Gentleman enjoying Hookah" "Young Irish Lady doing penance by walking on sharp stones round a well" "A New Zealand Chief polishing the skull of one of his enemies" and so on. It concludes with 'A French Patriot playing Battledoor i.e. battledore & Shuttlecock' the character hitting two crowns and a bonnet-rouge into the air.</p><p>Although unsigned the artist for the work is clearly Benjamin Clayton 1809-1883 what little we know of him comes mainly from his daughter the writer and artist Ellen Creathorne 1834-1900. Benjamin was born in Dublin but moved his family to London in 1841 hoping to be a history painter however his gifts lay instead with illustration firstly producing his own periodicals gChatg and gPunchinello. A journal of wit wisdom and romanceg but later having to work for other publishers first with Ackermann & Co. and later for Dean and Son.</p><p>The publisher George Mann at 39 Cornhill together with Dean & Son issued several panoramas at the time of the Great Exhibition the partnership ending with Mann's death in 1852.</p> Dean & Son, Printers. [Published by] G. Mann, Cornhill [London].
