Shepp's World's Fair Photographed Being a Collection of Copyrighted Photographs .

Language: English

Published by Globe Bible Publishing, 1893

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Seller: Turtle Creek Books and Sheet Music, Mississauga, ON, CanadaTurtle Creek Books and Sheet Music

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Hardcover, quarter leather, navy boards with faded gilt titles on front. Spine and hinges were repaired at some point, nicely done. Some shelf and edgewear, A very large book with 528 pages, filled with vintage photographs. A note on the publishing history is useful before the description. Shepp's World's Fair Photographed was originally issued in 1893–1894 by the Globe Bible Publishing Company of Chicago and Philadelphia in thirty-two paper-wrapped parts sold sequentially by subscription at twenty-five cents each. These parts were later gathered and bound into the single-volume format most commonly encountered today. Booksellers handling the original parts note that bound copies are considerably more common than the complete set in original wrappers, and that bound copies are later productions despite frequently carrying the same 1893 copyright date on their title pages. The distinction matters for collectors: a true first in original parts is a genuine rarity, while the bound volume, though scarce enough, is the standard collectible form.measures approximately eleven by nine inches — a large format designed to present its photographs to full advantage. It is bound in blue cloth with lettering and decorative flourishes stamped in blind and gilt on the spine and front cover, with decorated endpapers. The Exposition documented in these pages was a transformative event in American cultural history, credited with accelerating the City Beautiful movement in urban planning, introducing millions of Americans to electricity and to modernist architecture, and generating the Beaux-Arts classicism of its buildings — the so-called White City. …

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Bibliographic details

Title
Shepp's World's Fair Photographed Being a Collection of Copyrighted Photographs .
Author
James W. Shepp ' Daniel B Shepp
Publisher
Globe Bible Publishing
Publication year
1893
Condition
Good
Binding
Leather
Language
English
Edition
First Edition
Seller catalogs
.Antiquarian - 19th Century, .Photography - Photo Essays

Turtle Creek Books and Sheet Music

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