The great Centennial exhibition critically described and illustrated.
Title:
The great Centennial exhibition critically described and illustrated.
Author:
Sandhurst, Phillip T.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Philadelphia and Chicago : P. W. Ziegler & Co., [1876 ;
Philadelphia : electrotyped by MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan..
©1876 ;
Physical Description:
544 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, plates ; 24 cm
Summary:
This review of the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 demonstrates numerous aspects of American ingenuity and taste in the Victorian era.
Language:
English
Local Note:
Rare Book Room 1876 edition: 23.6 x 17 cm. The printer's imprint is on the title page verso. The volume is bound in brown morocco over boards, with the half-title as part of a design stamped in gilt on the front cover and in black on the back cover. The spine has the half-title and author stamped in gilt, and bears the illegible remnants of a black horizontal label. The front flyleaf bears the manuscript ownership note, "William J. Vincent, St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, January 19th, 1877."
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Format :
Book