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 survey of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, written by historian Hubert Howe Bancroft and published in Chicago the same year for a general readership of visitors and buyers. Its pictures are black-and-white photographs and halftone plates of exhibition interiors, including a decorated period room, a display of stained glass and carved furniture, and a gallery wall hung densely with framed paintings, offering a designer reference for Victorian interior arrangement and ornament.
