World’s Columbian Exposition official publications. Revised catalogue Department of Fine Arts with index of exhibitors. For this catalogue the pictures are numbered consecutively as they appear on the gallery walls. . . . 2 copies.
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
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