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Fifty-two tinted lithographic plates (four of them colored), each with a leaf of letterpress description. One of the colored plates (Customs House) with some slightly later hand-coloring. Original wrapper for Part 4 (April 1866) bound in at front, followed by original printed prospectus. Oblong folio. Contemporary three-quarter black morocco and pebbled cloth, spine gilt, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. A very good copy. A marvelous collection of views of Chicago - drawn, described, and published by Chicagoans - providing the best visual description of Chicago before the destruction wreaked by the Great Fire of 1871. The scarce prospectus for the work, present here, asserts that CHICAGO ILLUSTRATED would provide views giving "striking evidences of the City's improvement and enterprise." It was promised that there would be twenty-five total parts, "with each to contain at least four tinted Lithographic Views" for a total of 100 or more views, giving "a comprehensive picture of this marvelous city." Ultimately, only thirteen parts were issued, each with four plates, for a total of fifty-two views. The plates and/or the letterpress description of the plates are as follows: 1) "Chamber of Commerce" 2) "Tremont House" 3) "Second Presbyterian Church" 4) "Great Central Depot / Great Central Depot Grounds With Entrance to Harbor" 5) "Post Office Building / Custom House" 6) "Wabash Avenue Methodist Church" 7) "Rush Street Bridge From State Street" 8) "Michigan Avenue From Park Row" 9) "The Opera House / Crosby's Opera House" 10) "Twelfth Street Bridge / View from 12th Street Bridge" 11) "Church of the Holy Family / Jesuite Church" 12) "The Lake View House / View from Lake House" 13) "Court House / Court House Square" 14) "Corner State and Washington Streets" 15) "Trinity Church" 16) "Chicago Harbor" 17) "La Salle Street from Court House Square" 18) "Col. Wood's Museum" 19) "Universalist Church" 20) "Lake Street Bridge" 21) "Chicago University" 22) "Sherman House" 23) "North Presbyterian Church" 24) "Corner Lake and State Streets" 25) "Douglas Monument" 26) "Briggs House" 27) "Second Baptist Church" 28) "Junction of the Chicago River" 29) "The Chicago â Crib'" 30) "Plymouth Congregational Church" 31) "Soldier's Home" 32) "Corner South Water and Clark Streets" 33) "Union Stock Yards" 34) "Hough House" 35) "First Congregational Church" 36) "Illinois Central Round House" 37) "Great Fire on Lake Street" 38) "Third Presbyterian Church" 39) "Mr. Vicker's Theatre" 40) "Michigan Avenue from the Lake" 41) "M.S. & N.I. & C. & R.I. & P.R.R. Depot" 42) "Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church" 43) "Armory and Gas Works" 44) "Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Freight Depot" 45) "Corner Lake Street and Wabash Avenue" 46) "Eighth Presbyterian Church" 47) "Corner Lake and Wells Streets" 48) "Park Row" 49) "Chicago Water Works" 50) "First Baptist Church" 51) "Marine Bank Building" 52) "View from Van Buren Street Bridge" The publishers, Otto Jevne and Peter Almini, had been best known as decorators specializing in ornamental paintings and frescos. They teamed with the talented lithographer, Austrian-born Louis Kurz, to form the Chicago Lithographing Company, under whose imprint this work was issued. Kurz and two other lithographers, Otto Knirsch and Edward Carqueville, created the lovely views, which show a wide variety of buildings and places in Chicago. Included are views of the Chamber of Commerce, the Great Central Depot Grounds, Tremont House, the Customs House, Michigan Avenue, LaSalle Street, Chicago University, the Union Stock Yards, and the Water Works. A great variety of structures, parks, and commercial enterprises are shown, including churches, banks, busy docks and rivers, parks, theatres, the opera house, hotels, railroads, entertainments, etc., showing a bustling city that had become a great center of commerce and culture. One of the colored illustrations dramatically shows a building being engulfed by the "Great Fire on Lake. Seller Inventory # WRCAM46507
Bibliographic Details
Title: CHICAGO ILLUSTRATED. 1830. 1866. LITERARY ...
Publisher: Published by Jevne & Almini, Chicago
Publication Date: 1867
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