The Artistic Guide to Chicago and the World's Columbian Exposition [Salesman's Dummy]

[Chicago]: Columbian Art Company, 1892. Very Good. [Chicago]: Columbian Art Company, 1892. Salesman's dummy copy. Slim octavo (23 cm); mixed pagination + folding frontis + 1pp ad + 16pp unused order sheets; illus. throughout; 28 plates. Boards full bound in black and gilt stamped gray cloth with decorative gray endsheets. Foldout aerial view illustration of Exposition loosely laid in with tipped in pink prospectus at front endsheets. Boards worn at corners and spine ends with minor rubbing to edges. Generally soiled and scuffed. Endsheet edges toned and offsetting to title page from foldout frontis. Rear endsheet has example spine pasted in. Pages uniformly toned. Overall a Very Good copy with delightful ephemera.