Chicago Tribune, September 23, 1893
The Tribune has received the first five parts of the opiparous “Art and Architecture,” the official work on the World’s Columbian Exposition. The reader will please imagine the word “official” as if printed in large type, Mr. George Barrie, the Philadelphia publisher, requesting that particular stress be laid on this word. It is proposed that the work will be composed of twenty-five parts, and as the parts are $1 apiece it will be seen that the publication is costly. In every part there are two etchings, one photogravure, and one chromotypogravure. as a new system is called. In point of type and paper the height of elegance is reached, and in the illustrations, as far as the architecture of the great Fair is concerned, there is nothing left to be desired. In regard to the works of art that have been reproducer opinions will doubtless differ. Mr. Barrie was fortunate in securing M. Jules Jacquet of “L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts” to superintend this department. The artists who put themselves under his direction are eminent in their profession. While the new art of color etching is lavishly represented, one cannot speak in unreserved terms of praise of the examples here presented. A certain muddiness in several colored plates may be ascribed to the fact that this art is in its infancy.
Inter Ocean, October 13, 1894
ART AND ARCHITECTURE.-(Philadelphia: George Barrie, Chicago: Joseph Smart, No. 1418 Masonic Temple.) Parts 21, 22, and 23 indicate to the reader that this beautiful art work is near completion. It is safe to say that every large promise of the pub lisher has been fulfilled to the letter. Both pictures and text are admirable. The center table of the library will have few more interesting reminders of the preatest event of the century than will the twenty-five numbers which complete the collection of “Art and Architecture of the World’s Columbian Exposition.”
World’s Columbian Exposition The Art and Architecture. The Edition of the Republic in Eleven Parts, Printed and Published by George Barrie, Philadelphia. Bound in 3/4 leather and silk portfolio. Measures 16″ x 22″. 100 copies printed. Chicagology has Copy No. 90, but only Parts II, and IV-X, purchased by Mr & Mrs E. B. Beecher.1
NOTES.
1Mr. Ebenezer B. Beecher, inventor, whose death in Westville, Conn., has been announced, invented and perfected many of the machines now in use by the Diamond Match Company. His inventions revolutionized match making. His first invention of this character was the stick setting machine which laid the foundation of his fortune, and which changed the whole character of match making throughout the world. Following upon this he invented the stick-cutting machine, the rolling-oft machine, the composition mixing and dipping ma-chine, the box-making machine, and the shuck-making machine. He also brought out numerous other inventions.—Boston Evening Transcript, October 18, 1904
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