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 ...
The Book of the Fair is a large illustrated descriptive account of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, written by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published in Chicago for a general readership interested in the fair. Its pictures are black-and-white halftone photographs of exhibition interiors, pavilions, and portrait heads, with dense surrounding text, and a designer might take from them the layout of photographic plates framed by columns of type and the look of late nineteenth-century architectural documentation.
