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[CHICAGO COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION]. BANCROFT, Hubert Howe (1832...

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[CHICAGO COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION]. 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: The Bancroft Company Publishers, 1895. Large folios. Profusely illustrated. 508; 1000 pp. Bound in later full brown textured cloth, spines stamped in gilt, later and original marbled endleaves (some rubbing to cloth, some toning, occasional soiling, a few gutters starting). Very good. FIRST TWO FOLIO VOLUME EDITION.