The Chefs-D'Oeuvre D'Art of The International Exhibition, 1878. Illustrated

The Chefs-D'Oeuvre D'Art of The International Exhibition. Illustrated. c1878. Philadelphia: George Barrie Publisher.

Folio.(11.25" x 16.5") 138 pp. Quarter brown leather with corners, gilt rule to all leather edges, over brown fabric boards. Gilt lettering centered on the upper board.Spine with five gilt-decorated raised bands. gilt lettering and decoration to each compartment. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Edgewear, corners lightly bumped and rubbed. The head and foot of the spine rubbed with loss of color. Extremities rubbed; hinges, bands, and board edges rubbed with separation of fabric at the board foot. Finger smudges to the fore-edge of text pages, some plates. Heavily illustrated with 76 full-page engravings by accomplished artists, 84 engravings on wood of in-text illustrations, including illustrated initials, head-pieces, and tail-pieces. An oversized, attractively bound book on the art of the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878.

Edward Strahan was the pen name of Earl Shinn (1838–1886), an American art critic, illustrator, and man of letters whose writings captured the flourishing world of Gilded Age art, architecture, and collecting.

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