Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'Exposition universelle de Paris, 1889
Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'Exposition universelle de Paris, 1889 is a large illustrated survey of paintings and the fair's buildings, compiled by William Walton and published in Philadelphia and Paris in 1889 for an international audience of art and architecture readers. Its plates pair dense printed text with photogravure views of the Exposition's Palace of Liberal Arts, a dome, and a lithograph of a Cairo street. A designer might draw on its fin-de-siecle ornament, exhibition architecture, and crisp black-and-white reproduction style for period typography and layout.
